Sixteen days after launch, a spacecraft disintegrates as it re-enters the atmosphere. What went wrong? Hotels: what happens when these buildings topple while you sleep? When China’s Lixinsha Bridge unexpectedly collapsed, five vehicles careened off its deck. Radiohead were supposed to perform live in Toronto, but the stage roof came crashing down, whereas in 2009, one of Shanghai’s Lotus Riverside towers simply fell over. In 1917, a ship collision in Halifax Harbour detonated a blast that left almost two thousand dead. And when you’re a Ghost airport, people just seem to stay away.
