Most disturbing tragedy?
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For me,has to be the Ukraine air disaster 10 years ago,911 and the Cromwell street murders 
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Plus the Bradford football club fire sticks in my mind, because I can remember watching it live on TV. A tiny little fire that spread so quickly.
The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip in the Welsh village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil, on 21 October 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults. It was caused by a build-up of water in the accumulated rock and shale, which suddenly started to slide downhill in the form of slurry.
Also this missing plane is quite disturbing, mostly because no one knows what happened to it. all those people missing and no clue what happened to them
all those mentioned are tragedies caused by terrorism, natural, and or unintentional human error.
for me, it's one ordinary human making a small error that , in 99 out of 100 times would be of little consequence, like Quintinshill, a signaller forgot to do a routine thing he did dozens of times a day but this time it led to 200 deaths.
Same with the Tenerife tragedy, a pilot , in a tired and grumpy mood, misunderstands a message from traffic control as permission to take off.
Dunno, mine was more tragedy in the Shakespearian sense.
^ This is the one that sprung to mind when I saw the thread title. I remember it being discussed on here a while ago and it actually upset me quite a bit.
There are an awful lot of tragedies that don't appear on TV with a disturbing scenes warning and keeping the lawyers in business for years to come.
Bradford City fire for me without any doubt. Not only because it happened just up the road, but because so many of my friends were/are Bradford City fans and were at the game. I also know John Helm, the commentator who was covering the game as he used to work at a sister newspaper to the one I worked for and I don't think the horror of that day has ever left him.
I remember going to my friend's house after we finished our paper round and putting the TV on to check the scores, only to see the live TV coverage. I'm glad ITV decided to never air the footage again, although it is still all over the internet.
Dunblane also holds a personal memory for me as my then boyfriend's sister lived in the town, her kids were at the primary school and her husband was a police inspector in the area. In the days of no internet, finding out her daughters were okay took me calling in an awful lot of journalistic favours.
I also had friends involved in 9/11 so it's always the ones with a personal connection which resonate with me, even though there have been dozens of similar tragedies, including those mentioned here.
Evil .
The recent terrorist knife attack in a Chinese train station was rather horrific and disturbing
Hillsborough as I am from Sheffield and have been in the kop
911 - 7/7 - I looked after some of the victims of the latter at work, and as mobile networks were down had no idea if my own loved ones were ok til the evening
Tianemen Square
Lockerbie
Err....the kop isn't at Hillsborough. It's at Liverpool's ground, Anfield.
A truly tragic event.
Leppings laner end was colloquially known as the kop in Sheffield
when I posted that I was pretty sure in my head it was anyway
aye the spion kop
http://www.midfielddynamo.com/stadia/top_kops.htm
Fair do's.
I find the Anders Brevik thing disturbing in the same vein