Gasoline tanker on fire, http://www.sdcounty.ca.gov/deh/hmd/hirt/recent.html

Propane tanks on fire, http://www.sdcounty.ca.gov/deh/hmd/hirt/recent.html

MOUNTAIN HOME AIR FORCE BASE, Idaho -- Capt. Christopher Stricklin ejects from theU.S. Air Force Thunderbirds number six aircraft less than a second before it impacted theground at an air show at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, Sept. 14. Stricklin, who wasnot injured, ejected after both guiding the jet away from the crowd of more than 60,000 peopleand ensuring he couldn't save the aircraft. This was only the second crash since the Air Forcebegan using F-16 Falcons for its demonstration team in 1982. The ACES II ejection seatperformed flawlessly.(wikipedia)

Abandoned liquid oxygen tank, San Diegohttp://www.sdcounty.ca.gov/deh/hmd/hirt/recent.html

Ilyushin Il-76 cargo aircraft burning on the ramp at Pointe Noire airport (Republic of the Congo).It is painted in the colors of Russian operator “Dobrolet” but it‟s unclear what exact aircraft is involved. It is suspected that fire started when a 4 4 vehicle was loaded for flight to Brazzaville and developed electrical short circuit. Source www.flyafrica.info

Titanicdouble hulled, 16 compartments, sinks on maiden voyage 1912

Around midday on Saturday 10 July 1976, an explosion occurred in a TCP (2,4,5-trichlorophenol) reactor of the ICMESA chemical plant on the outskirts of Meda, a small town about 20 kilometres north of Milan, Italy.1 A toxic cloud containing TCDD (2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin), then widely believed to be one of the most toxic man-made chemicals (Mocarelli et al. 1991), was accidentally released into the atmosphere. The dioxin cloud contaminated a densely populated area about six kilometres long and one kilometre wide, lying downwind from the site (fig. 4.1). This event became internationally known as the Seveso disaster, after the name of a neighbouring municipality that was most severely affected (Hay 1982; Pocchiari, Silano, and Zapponi 1987).http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/uu21le/uu21le09.htm

The reactor accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was the worst in history, resulting in a severe nuclear meltdown. On 26 April 1986 at 01:23:40 a.m. reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant located in the former Soviet Union near Pripyat in Ukraine exploded. Further explosions and the resulting fire sent a plume of highly radioactive fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical area.

The plume drifted over parts of the western Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Northern Europe, and eastern North America. Large areas in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia were badly contaminated, resulting in the evacuation and resettlement of over 336,000 people. According to official post-Soviet data,[1] about 60% of the radioactive fallout landed in Belarus.

Source wikipedia

The Exxon Valdez, three days after the vessel ran aground on Bligh Reef. The tragedy of this accident catapulted NOAA‟s capacity to conduct damage assessments for oil spill disasters by stimulating Congress to pass the Oil Pollution Control Act of 1990.

http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/events/exxonvaldez/welcome.html

Debris from the U.S. space shuttle Columbia streaks across the sky over Tyler, Texas. The shuttle broke up as it was returning to Earth in February 2003.

Emergency kit, unknown source

Li Yan's Accident series Nos. 5 & 6 deal with the phenomenon of horror. Approaching painting as a forensic activity, Li's works are comprised of groups of small canvases to reconstruct disaster scenes as elaborate narratives.

militiamen fight on September 29, 1985 in Tripoli, northern Lebanon. (AFP/ Nabil Ismail)

Walid Raad founded The Atlas Group in 1999, an imaginary foundation whose objective is to research and document Lebanon„s contemporary history (and civil war). The group primarily presented through lectures that include films, photography exhibitions, videos, and a variety of documents from the group„s archives containing authored, found, and fabricated materials.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiWlvBro9eI

Hindenburghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDc1JsCmz6Ihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7viNdrq8qt0

Rigged Train Crashhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHtRZ_k0s7M

Fast footage train crash (Eschede)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO9xbjExkL0

F-16 midair collisionhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFhoeQhlkzk

Civilian aircraft midair collision reconstructionhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ugiCi5HPSk

Challengerhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh7txE2DbYg

Columbiahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LijS7XP4vp8