Egg on the face -- an Embarrassing moments in history thread

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I was thinking of this today on my way home from work. What major embarrassing moments have happened in history. I will start with two:

1) The Titanic -- Unsinkable, well, not really.

2) Maiden flight of the Airbus A-320, Air France -- Video speaks for itself. It was a result of the pilot not fully understanding the "fully automated" computer system. Great Mayday episode too.

What else is out there???
 
Ns1

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DaTT said:
I was thinking of this today on my way home from work. What major embarrassing moments have happened in history. I will start with two:

1) The Titanic -- Unsinkable, well, not really.

2) Maiden flight of the Airbus A-320, Air France -- Video speaks for itself. It was a result of the pilot not fully understanding the "fully automated" computer system. Great Mayday episode too.

What else is out there???
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breathes


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ImpulsE69

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Hindenburg.

World Trade Center (if you consider the collapsing of them).

A bunch of George Bush Jr. quotes.


OMG. I just watched that video and had the same reaction as NS1!! LMAO
 
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Ns1 said:
AAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

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breathes


AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
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Like 150 people died....and all of the passengers had won tickets to fly on this flight....not a good win at all.
 
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DaTT said:
Like 150 people died....and all of the passengers had won tickets to fly on this flight....not a good win at all.
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OMG. That sucks.

But it reminds me of another embarrassing moment in history.

The Challenger (the one with the teacher that won the trip).


I realize some of these are tragic..but they are embarrassing.
 
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That time Bill Gates unveiled that new version of windows only for it to hit a blue screen of death in the big preview.
 
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The entire war in Iraq was almost worth it, just because we got to hear this guy:

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DaTT said:
Like 150 people died....and all of the passengers had won tickets to fly on this flight....not a good win at all.
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wat

Air France Flight 296 was a chartered flight of a new fly-by-wire Airbus A320-111 operated by Air France. On June 26, 1988, it was flying over Mulhouse-Habsheim Airport (ICAO code LFGB) as part of an air show. The low-speed fly-by was supposed to take place with landing gear down at an altitude of 100 feet (30 m). Instead, the plane slowly descended to 30 feet and crashed into the tops of trees beyond the runway. Three passengers died. This was the first crash of an Airbus A320. The cause of the accident is disputed, as many irregularities were later revealed by the accident investigation.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_296

Third-party investigations into the crash dispute the official findings.[3] Captain Michel Asseline asserted that the altimeter read 30m (100'). However, while the pilots were trained in metric, this particular plane was in Imperial units. Air France didn't inform the crew of this critical change (yet the crew voices are recorded on black boxes, and they use imperial units).
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wow, deja vu for another embarrassing moment.

NASAs metric confusion caused Mars orbiter loss
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http://articles.cnn.com/1999-09-30/...er-climate-orbiter-spacecraft-team?_s=PM:TECH
 
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