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10 Of The Most Expensive Mistakes Ever Made In The World!

  • 11:18 am December 7, 2020
  • surabhi

The world is built by humans, piece by piece with a lot of hardwork. But at the end of the day, people responsible are just humans and they are bound to make some grave mistakes. Take for instance these slew of chaotic mistakes that cost those funding these projects big million bucks!

THE WORM!

This guy called Robert Tappan Morris is who the entire world is scared of. He invented the first worm and believe it or not, he infected thousands of unix computers. He found one loophole and managed to create such a widespread havoc. He was convicted for his invention and sentenced to social service. Today he is a professor at MIT, the same university where he first created the malware!



BITCOIN DUMPED!

This crypto currency has 2 kind of people reacting to it - lovers / users and absolute haters. Turns out this fellow, James Howell, was an avid Bitcoin collector and had collected over 7500 of the currency. When it reached its peak in 2013, he realized he had apparently dumped the hard disk some place and couldn't find it. What a shame!

HEATHROW AIRPORT!

Heathrow airport, one of the busiest in the world is always pumped and gets things right. But not on the first day that it opened. There were so many errors that day, including - bags not being loaded, problems with the baggage system, cancellation of over 500 flights, massive queues, over 28000 bags stranded etc. The list is long!



TITANIC!

Jack Phillips, the senior radio operator was responsible for not passing a clear warning to the Ship's captain. Imagine this tiny mistake causing the whole massive disaster that Titanic was!

INDIA PAKISTAN SEPERATION!

One of the most expensive initiative for both the developing countries. It was the aftermath of social - economical strain that the two countries struggled to work through.



PURULIA ARMS DROP

In 1995 Antonov An-26 aircraft flew over Purulia in West Bengal and dropped unauthorized arms. The accused Kim Davy from Denmark claimed that it was a move by the ruling Congress party and RAW to overthrow the Communist party of West Bengal at the time1