There were a lot of famous failures of engineering systems: Titanic, Tacoma narrows bridge collapse, Subsynchronous resonance in power systems, Telephone and power system outages, Estonia Ferry sinking, Denver airport baggage handling system, and Ariane 5.
Each of these failures were due partly or primarily to factors beyond engineering or technical considerations.
This is just a brief review of those failures.
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Famous failures of complex engineering systems