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There is a fundermental difference between
fire and IT... fire can and does occur naturally due to many causes and influences well beyond human capacity:

1 - Lightening strikes...
2 - Methane explosions...
3 - Spontaneous combustion due to magma flow...
4 - Spontaneous combustion due to refraction...
5 - Spontaneous combustion just because (documented cases of people bursting into flames... that has gotta suck!)

So maybe you want to pick something that is 100% man made as is identified in the article. devil
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Why omitions?  GrimmReaperSound | 11/27/07
Why omitions? Why not "omissions"?  mseiler@... | 11/28/07
Software failures resulting in loss of life...  Resuna | 11/28/07
DIA's baggage handling system  DougOfCBS ZDNet Moderator | 11/28/07
Colorado in General  thomasderk@... | 11/28/07
Hmmm...  AbbydonKrafts | 11/28/07
Purposely omitted errors that cost lives?  eljay001 | 11/27/07
Therac-25...now there's a blast from the past  jasonp@... | 11/27/07
This article is too soft with the omission of deadly IT failures  racingmustang | 11/27/07
Yes, I'm offended by this...  MV_z | 11/28/07
Forgot the Windows one that almost killed thousands  itguy08 | 11/27/07
I see you think you know more than the FAA  Confused by religion | 11/27/07
Win PC's never used in production  skykingoh | 11/28/07
You think the FAA Would admit to gross neglegence?  itguy08 | 11/28/07
And they replaced the Unix systems, why?  GuidingLight | 11/27/07
Logical fallacy  bmerc | 11/28/07
Some Idiot decided "Windows Everywhere"  itguy08 | 11/28/07
thats just your opinion tguy08 and not a very good one at that  SO.CAL Guy | 11/28/07
what's multitasking?  rmjivaro | 11/28/07
Utter nonsense  Dilandau | 11/28/07
Wake up and enter this century...  Marty R. Milette | 11/28/07
you wake up  cavlosnap@... | 11/30/07
College Courses  levinson | 12/27/07
Wrong Conclusion  davidsarmstrong | 11/29/07
Application fault, not Windows  Dilandau | 11/28/07
Windows in the glass cockpit  CodeCurmudgeon | 11/30/07
Links:  itguy08 | 11/27/07
Fire is also guilty...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/27/07
There is a fundermental difference between  Linux User 147560 | 11/27/07
But the wheel is a good analogy...  timaok | 11/28/07
Yes, the wheel  Linux User 147560 | 11/28/07
how about windoze viruses  Linux Geek | 11/27/07
Give it a rest and try for once to stay on topic  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/27/07
So now...  jasonp@... | 11/27/07
2003, 1999, 2001. These represent the years the malware you mentioned...  ye | 11/27/07
And to give a company a complete pass..  jasonp@... | 11/28/07
1983, 1990, 1996, 1998, 1999... These are the years for incidents...  bmerc | 11/28/07
i did not see Microsoft in this article it was brought up by  SO.CAL Guy | 11/28/07
Ax- still at it  oldfellow | 11/29/07
Is there a contest  done@... | 11/28/07
and Just as Importantly...  Jim from NoVA | 11/28/07
You don't know much about Linux do you?  Linux User 147560 | 11/28/07
Wrong...  Wolfie2K3 | 12/27/07
Get a life - or a clue  brian ansorge | 11/28/07
Didn't know about the early warning system problem  John L. Ries | 11/27/07
RE: The top 10 IT disasters of all time  cdrdata@... | 11/27/07
Windows Vista, Windows ME???  itanalyst | 11/27/07
How About  Blogsworth | 11/27/07
Nah. Though you might want to add  GuidingLight | 11/27/07
Metric problem...  Fred Fredrickson | 11/27/07
I'm in the US...  AbbydonKrafts | 11/28/07
Knots  oldfellow | 11/29/07
Top 10? maybe a Couple  tsercu@... | 11/28/07
I agree  AbbydonKrafts | 11/28/07
LINUX  vshamanovsky | 11/28/07
No mention of the Yorktown Smart Ship fiasco?  progan01@... | 11/28/07
Let's try this without the spin, eh?  Confused by religion | 11/28/07
RE: The top 10 IT disasters of all time  howardc@... | 11/28/07
How about this article?  amatbrewer@... | 11/28/07
I disagree  John L. Ries | 11/28/07
Dealing with computer glitches  bfilipiak@... | 11/28/07
You're luck...  Cardinal_Bill | 11/29/07
JetBlue fiasco from last year.  itguy08 | 11/28/07
i think you need to go back and reread about it and not just hand pick  SO.CAL Guy | 11/28/07
Lt. Col Petrov  UllyWully | 11/28/07
Not surprised...  John L. Ries | 11/28/07
And what do you think Bush would have done...  Marty R. Milette | 11/28/07
RE: The top 10 IT disasters of all time  rzp | 11/28/07
RE: The top 10 IT disasters of all time  eric.espino@... | 11/28/07
A big recurring one: blaming MS Windows !  patrick.placentino@... | 11/28/07
RE: The top 10 IT disasters of all time  paul.barnes@... | 11/28/07
Top 10 Proofreading Disasters  steve@... | 11/28/07
another one  arizmendi | 11/28/07
RE: The top 10 IT disasters of all time  cris.andrei@... | 11/28/07
The top 10 IT disasters of all time  arthurh@... | 11/28/07
I Hate the Ariane 501 myth  orcmid | 11/28/07
RE: The top 10 IT disasters of all time  erikmidtskogen | 11/28/07
Application fault, not Windows  Dilandau | 11/28/07
Oops  Dilandau | 11/28/07
17000 planes grounded at LAX?  Retief de Villiers | 11/28/07
Don't you feel proud to be British  ben.rattigan | 11/29/07
So many points to discuss...  neilrued@... | 11/29/07
RE: The top 10 IT disasters of all time  medpeddler@... | 12/05/07
Dell  KazooSpartan | 12/27/07
RE: The top 10 IT disasters of all time  pandadesigns | 07/06/09

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