This week’s round-up is dedicated major miscalculations, extreme errors and supreme snafus.
Did you hear about the “controlled descent” that plunged passengers of Delta Flight 2353 30,000 feet in 7 minutes? Apparently a “cabin pressurization irregularity caused the issue which unsurprisingly freaked out those on board.
Speaking of uncontrolled descents, this GOBankingRates slideshow lists 25 companies who reached the pinnacle of success only to end up in bankruptcy.
A Mitsubishi employee used unauthorized trades to bet on oil markets and ended up losing $320 million–and his job.
Before there was Chernobyl, there was Three Mile Island. The infamous nuclear power plant shut down its last reactor today due Pennsylvania state legislature failing to pass a bill to continue to subsidize the plant.
Finally, Money Talks News lists 14 Products that Flopped Big-Time including Google Glass, New Coke and the DeLorean.