title: List of modern infrastructure failures
text: # List of modern infrastructure failures
  
  Infrastructure includes the basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function. This entry aggregates articles on and lists of modern infrastructure failures by category (type of infrastructure).
  
  ## Structural
  
  * List of structural failures and collapses
  * Category:Collapsed buildings and structures
  * List of bridge failures
  * List of dam failures
  * Category:Dam failures
  * Levee failures and breaches
  * List of catastrophic collapses of radio masts and towers
  
  ## Electrical and utility
  
  * Power outages
  * 2007 New York City steam explosion
  * Electric power blackouts
  
  ## Transportation
  
  * Lists of rail accidents
  * Accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft
  * Airship accidents
  * Accidents and disasters by death toll
  * Road accidents
  * Airliner accidents and incidents caused by in-flight structural failure
  * Airliner accidents and incidents caused by mechanical failure
  
  ## Nuclear
  
  * Nuclear accidents
  * Nuclear and radiation accidents
  * Military nuclear accidents
  * Civilian nuclear power accidents
  * Nuclear accidents and incidents
  
  ## Space
  
  * Space Shuttle: Columbia disaster, Challenger disaster
  * Space accidents and incidents
  
  ## Other
  
  * Engineering failures
  * Collapsed oil platforms
  