Engineered

Every event filed in Q3 Engineered

13 of these are marked: filed here, but running another quadrant’s mechanism by the end. The paperwork never changed.

• Iberian Peninsula blackout2025Cascading generator trips blacked out Spain and Portugal for hours.
• Heathrow substation fire2025A single substation fire shut Europe's busiest airport for a day.
• Baltimore Key Bridge collapse2024A ship blackout hit an unprotected pier and dropped the bridge.Behaved like Q2 The Coconut by the end
• CrowdStrike outage2024One faulty security update bricked 8.5M Windows machines worldwide.
• Baltic Sea cable cuts2024Ships dragging anchors severed telecom and power cables between states.
• Red Sea cable cuts2024A sinking ship's dragging anchor cut Asia-Europe internet cables.
• Change Healthcare ransomware2024One server without MFA froze billing for half of US healthcare.Behaved like Q-F Fraud by the end
• East Palestine derailment2023One overheated bearing derailed a hazmat train and forced a toxic burn.Behaved like Q2 The Coconut by the end
• MOVEit mass-exploit2023One file-transfer zero-day breached 2,700+ organisations at once.Behaved like Q-F Fraud by the end
• Southwest holiday meltdown2022A storm exposed legacy crew software; 16,900 flights cancelled.
• Toyota supplier hack2022Ransomware on one parts supplier halted all 14 Toyota Japan plants.
• Suez Canal blockage2021One ship wedged sideways choked 12% of world trade for six days.Behaved like Q4 Where models die by the end
• AWS US-EAST-1 outage2021A routine scaling action hit a latent bug and took down half the internet.
• Colonial Pipeline shutdown2021One leaked password shut the pipeline carrying 45% of East Coast fuel.
• Meta global outage2021One backbone command erased Facebook from the internet worldwide.
• Boeing 737 MAX MCAS crashes2018A single sensor could push the nose down. The pilots were never told the system existed.Behaved like Q2 The Coconut by the end
• Equifax breach2017One unpatched server exposed half of America. The password was admin.
• NotPetya (Maersk)2017A Ukrainian tax update froze a fifth of world shipping. One server in Ghana had lost power and survived.Behaved like Q2 The Coconut by the end
• WannaCry ransomware attack2017The fix shipped in March. In May the worm took 150 countries, on the machines nobody patched.Behaved like Q2 The Coconut by the end
• Samsung Galaxy Note 7 recall2016They recalled 2.5 million phones and swapped the batteries. The replacements caught fire too.Behaved like Q1 Predictable by the end
• Knight Capital2012Dead code from 2003 woke on the one server they forgot to update, then traded for 45 minutes.
• Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster2011Blamed on the wave. The backup generators sat in the basement, below a seawall long known to be too low.Behaved like Q2 The Coconut by the end
• Deepwater Horizon2010The failsafe was a blowout preventer. It buckled the very pipe it was built to shear.Behaved like Q2 The Coconut by the end
• Air France Flight 4472009Three iced sensors handed the jet back to the crew, who held the nose up all the way down.Behaved like Q2 The Coconut by the end
• Mattel lead-paint toy recall2007Mattel audited its Chinese factories. Nobody audited the paint supplier four tiers down.Behaved like Q1 Predictable by the end
• Tenerife collision1977The deadliest crash in aviation history happened on the ground.

The other four quadrants

• Q1 Predictable19
• Q2 The Coconut14
• Q4 Where models die24
• Q-F Fraud28