Most Expensive Mistakes in All History

No one is perfect and human air is al

most

inevitable, but some monumental

mistakes

can end up costing you a lot of money. These are some of the

most

expensive

mistakes

in

history

that should make you feel a little better about your own mistakes. Song number 10 su bridge collapse The Sung-soo Bridge over the Han River connects to districts in South Korea and is one of Seoul's most popular commuter routes, but the 3,805-foot structure was hit by a disaster in the morning On October 21, 1994, the bridge struggled under the weight of hundreds of people on their way to work in the early morning hours and around 7:40 a.m. m., a 157-foot central chunk collapsed 65 feet into the river along with cars, many buses and a fully loaded bus, 32 people lost their lives and 17 more were injured.

An investigation has been launched into the strange accident. The bridge had previously received complaints about unstable foundations causing an unstable sway sensation and the root cause was identified as a construction fault. Reports indicated that the steel trestle joints supporting the center suspension had been welded together using an incorrect weld. a thickness of 8 millimeters instead of 10 millimeters, causing crucial connecting pins to break under the immense pressure, although the bridge was designed to support a maximum weight of 36.3 tons for a car. Vehicles weighing 40 7.3 tons also used the bridge to commute. These combined factors cost the State Council $185,000 in compensation to the victims, while a complete reconstruction cost them the equivalent of an additional two million, making this costly human heir to the number of nine deadly skyscrapers in the spring of 2014.

London welcomed an ambitious new skyscraper to its 525-foot financial district. The tall reflective building became known as the Walkie Talkie due to its distinctive sidewalk design, but this shiny new tower hid a sinister secret. When summer arrived, the citizens of London began to complain that the south-facing concave surface of the building was causing powerful rays of sun. At times of the day that could raise the temperature to an unheard of 70 degrees Celsius, the highly concentrated beam was capable of melting roof tiles, causing a small fire on the doormat of a barber shop and melting a local businessman's Jaguar XJ, while a journalist even attempted to fry an egg in the extreme heat, the newly dubbed scorchy walkie had to be stopped, so a permanent umbrella known as Bree Soleil was placed in the building between the 3rd and 34th floors over the course of six months, with a cost of more than 12 million dollars a year.

A difficult pill to swallow considering that the building is ready cost more than 250 million. Ironically, architect Rafael Viñoly also designed the Vdara Hotel in Las Vegas, which suffered a similar problem as its bathers earned it the nickname "death ray," NOAA confessed it knew. this would happen, but he didn't have the tools to analyze how bad it would be, someone needs to tell this guy to stop designing super weapons instead of buildings number 8. The Lotus Riverside disaster. The Lotus Riverside complex in Shanghai was an ambitious project that ended in complete disaster due to a simple mistake: the residential complex was made up of 11 new high-rise apartment blocks, but around 5:00 a.m. m.

On June 27, 2009, one of the 13-story buildings suddenly collapsed, miraculously losing the surrounding blocks and preventing a devastating domino effect: the incident killed a construction worker, but the consequences could have been much worse if the almost entire building would have been occupied by its buyers. Investigations found that the freak accident was caused by non-compliance with building regulations and some poor-quality earthen foundations. Beneath the building was excavated to make a 15-foot underground parking lot and the soil was piled up 32 feet on the bank of a nearby river which then burst under the pressure, sending water gushing beneath this muddy foundation, causing the building to collapse. fell in a sudden direction. but simply moving the land somewhere else could have avoided the entire ordeal.

This massive oversight caused several investors in the project to withdraw and request their money back and the company suffered total financial losses of up to 30 million, including construction costs and compensation to potential owners. of the $2,100-per-square-foot number seven apartments Lake Pan its disaster in 1980, a vibrant exhibit commissioned by Texaco set off a catastrophic series of events that turned an 11-foot-deep body of fresh water in Louisiana known as Lake Pannier into a 1,300-foot-deep saltwater lake. On November 20, the $5 million oil rig owned by drilling contractor Wilson Brothers accidentally damaged the dome of the underground diamond crystal salt mine due to a Texaco miscalculation of its exact location.

About 13 billion liters of water were pumped out of the lake, washing the salty soil and water into a merciful, ever-widening hole that created a powerful vortex that sucked in the drilling rig, 11 barges, a tugboat, 65 acres of surrounding land and even a small island in the center of the lake the resulting chaos destroyed most of the evidence of the accident as air escaping from the mine cost 400 foot geysers and the Delcambre Channel reversed direction to flow towards the whirlpool miraculously no one died but the The real victim was Texaco, the man with the most money in his wallet, since the company paid 32 million to the salt mine for diamond crystals and 12 point 8 million. to a nearby plant nursery, making Lake Pannier perhaps the most

expensive

man-made lake in

history

, earning the Texaco brothers and Wilson the equivalent of one hundred and forty million today's dollars.

Number six, the Baltic ace's catastrophic mistakes can happen anywhere, as the Baltic demonstrates. The container ship Ace sank in just 15 minutes in the North Sea on December 5, 2012. The 23,500-tonne ship was lost 65 kilometers off the Dutch coast after colliding with the Cyprien container ship, the Corvis Jay, killing 11 of her 24 crew members and sinking more than 1,400 new ones. Mitsubishi cars being transported from Japan and Tokyo to Russia, the wreck ended up almost thirty meters deep in one of the busiest shipping routes in the world, hindering the safe passage of maritime traffic and risking the release of substances dangerous to the environment in March 2014.

The company Rijkswaterstaat and its cycling partners and Memo rescued the wreck, starting with the extraction of the remaining five hundred and forty thousand liters of oil, more than eighteen ships and one hundred and fifty people participated in a huge operation to remove the sunken ship that can only be accomplished by lifting the irreparably damaged wreck into pieces. As of April 2015 the ship was cut into eight sections with wire and brought to the surface and in pieces, look how big it was, here is the bow with all the cars inside, the Dutch police in ruins. unable to investigate the accident itself as it occurred outside its territorial waters, but it has since been speculated that the error was due to pure human error, as neither ship followed collision regulations.

The gigantic rescue operation alone cost 67 million euros, the equivalent of about 75 million dollars. Today, we add that to the cost of the Baltic rocket and the cost of repairing the Corvis J, as well as the cargo they carried and the driving error, the fifth Mars climate orbiter cost around one hundred and fifty million in total in September 1999, NASA's weight of 638 kilograms. The robotic space probe, the Mars Climate Orbiter, burned up and broke into pieces as it approached its destination after ten long months of travel. The orbiter was designed to examine the climate of the Martian planet, but the reason it couldn't even touch the ground is entirely due to the people who sent it into space to begin with, the navigation team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. , had used metric units measuring in millimeters and meters to indicate the planned altitude of the spacecraft, while Lockheed Martin Astronautics in Denver, Colorado, used imperial measurements, inches and feet, and crucially failed. recognize that the measurements required a conversion, so it is estimated that the climate orbiter's trajectory was dangerously within 57 kilometers of the planet's surface, where it jumped violently upon entry and was immediately destroyed.

This huge discrepancy was responsible for the failure of the entire the mission and the mission valued at just over three hundred and twenty-eight million dollars in 99 was lost forever adjusted for inflation, that's the equivalent of more than half a billion dollars. I guess it's worth sticking to one metric number for the SAT. Isaac's danger mistakes are easily made and it is often too late to rectify the situation by the time someone notices, but that wasn't exactly the case with the supposedly state-of-the-art Spanish submarine, the SAT Isaac Barrow, the submarine It was commissioned in 2013 as part of a new quartet for the Spanish Navy, but there is only one problem with its modern design.

Once submerged, Isaac's danger may never be able to surface again. This is because, miraculously, I noticed a flaw in its design that means the ship is between 75 and 100 tonnes overweight. meaning that Spain has essentially invested in a submarine that can only move in one downward direction. The error is said to be the result of a pesky decimal point placed in the wrong place during calculations and is a single point that could cost nine extra points. seven million per meter of hull that must be expanded to regain balance, taking into account that 680 million have already been invested in a single ship, as part of a total of three billion for the four submarines, this is not a mistake that can be overlooked Although the SAT is estimated to join the Spanish fleet in 2020, it is unclear if it will ever see the light of day, literally number three.

Berlin Brandenburg Airport Berlin Brandenburg Airport designed and built to commemorate the reunification of Germany after the fall of Berlin. Wall will become the third busiest airport in Germany and one of the 15 busiest in Europe. It is equipped with modern terminals, bold structures and even a working train station, but not a single passenger has passed through its gates. The multi-million dollar airport was supposed to open in 2012, but the only thing you will find there today are baggage tracks. in operation without bags and a single ghost train continued to operate to encourage air flow, but why did the global financial crisis of 2007 and 2008 reduce the possibilities of participation by contractors and investors?

By using public money with conflicting ideas, at one point the capacity inside the terminal building was doubled after construction had already begun and after the airport company realized that the designer had not taken into account account no purchases, completely new commercial floors were ordered after such setbacks. Invitations for the grand opening. They were sent in 2012, but the ceremony was canceled after it was discovered that the entire fire prevention system was not working. A reevaluation of the airport by officials discovered five hundred and fifty thousand faults that needed to be fixed before it could be considered for use, from incorrect bulbs to complete bulbs. poorly installed cable systems and millions spent each month to maintain the disused building the airport has now cost more than six and a half billion dollars more than three times its original budget number two the Vasa this monumental mistake dates back to 1624 when king Swedish ordered one One of the most spectacular warships the world has ever seen, the Vasa, a new flagship of the Swedish Navy was unveiled on August 10, 1628, but to the horror of thousands of excited spectators, it barely left the Bay of dwellings before sinking one hundred and five feet.

Below the surface, with the first gust of wind, the warship immediately capsized humiliating the king, who blamed the long-dead designer Henrik of hybrid sand for his failures in the king's coinage. The construction of the ship cost more than 200 thousand dollars of shipwreck, which amounted to more than 5%. of Sweden's gross national product for the year, i.e. one twentieth of the nation's annual income suddenly finds itself at the bottom of Stockholm harbour, if the equivalent percentage of Sweden's GNP were spent today on a single ship , this would be equivalent to twenty-five thousand six hundred billion dollars. The long recovery of the Vasa began in 1956 andIt continued until 1990, when the restored 17th-century ship was displayed at the Vasa Museum and retained 98 percent of its original glory, although official salvage costs were not recorded and were partly funded by the Navy.

Modern estimates for the recovery of a ship of its size cost between 55 and 110 million and the worst thing is that archaeological examination suggests that poor design was actually to blame, as the gun deck was too heavy. Alaska's #1 sale if you're selling something you should probably be selling. I am one hundred percent sure that there is no value left for you first and the sale of Alaska should be enough to prove that Alaska was originally owned by Russia and had been a fairly lucrative source of furs as well as tea and ice, but in 1867 Russian Emperor Alexander II no longer saw any benefit in holding the territory.

Harsh weather conditions made farming difficult and its distance meant it was difficult to protect from invasion, so Russia struck a deal to sell the region to the US for $7.2 million up front. Americans also did not think about Alaska until a major gold deposit was discovered in the Yukon in 1896, indicating its true potential as a gateway to a plethora of natural resources such as oil and gold, since the proportion between Russian ruble and dollar were almost equal. There wasn't much profit made from the sale back then, but the US has recouped its share a hundred times more than economists now estimate that the value of its oil and gas reserves alone is worth around $200 billion, which means that this is a mistake that definitely has Russia.

Emperor turning in his grave, so what's the most expensive mistake you've ever made and how does it compare which of these terrible, costly mistakes you facepalmed the hardest? Let me know in the comments and thanks for watching.