HIAD Facility - Application Type: Non-Road Vehicles
damage of shipping containers of a ship, reaction of phosphor pentoxide with wine leads to phosphoric acid and hydrogen
An explosion occurred at testing facility of a space rocket engine. The incident occurred when executing a test studying the performance of a hydrogen gas flow measuring system for fuel feeding…
Hydrogen ignition during the (illegal) filling of a balloon.Two men had decided to fill in a weather balloon with hydrogen in a storeroom located in the basement of a block of flats. Their idea was…
An explosion occurs during testing of the hydrogen feeding of an engine in the Spatial Agency Centre.
An explosion occurred at testing equipment of a fuel-feeding system for a space rocket engine. According to the original source of this event, now lost, the test envisaged a 42 MPa high-pressure…
The boat was a 6.5 m semi-rigid electric-powered inflatable canoe, mainly used for greeting and directing pleasure boaters in harbour.It exploded without a flame shortly when an employee of the…
The balloon had a 3.5m external diameter envelope made of anti-tear fabric (same techniques used in full sized balloons of the same company). The inner balloon was a meteorological balloon made of…
The last flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger ended 73 seconds after the launch in an explosive burn of hydrogen and oxygen propellants that destroyed the External Tank and exposed the Orbiter to…
As the airship approached the docking mast, it performed a sharp turn to face into the wind, which was shifting. The engines were run at full speed astern for about a minute to slow the airship. Dust…
The boat was performing a drive test when one of the 280 lead gel batteries exploded and took fire. The local fire brigade was able to extinguish the fire but the above deck section of the boat was…
A hydrogen and batteries driven aircraft was forced to land after a flight incident. According to the aircraft company the aircraft was forced to an emergency landing, but landed normally on its…
According to the media news, the accident involved an explosion of a fuel cell driven forklift during driving, resulting in an employee's death and 6 light injured other employees. The fire did not…
The event occurred in a support building at a test stand complex. The explosion destroyed two support buildings and severely damaged a large amount of equipment. No one was injured.Gaseous hydrogen…
A leak of hydrogen gas, followed by an explosion, occurred when an engine was loaded with air, oxygen, and hydrogen, and then started for a preliminary ramjet engine combustion test. The engine was…
Following the first flight of the Montgolfier brothers, the first severe accident with hydrogen on a Montgolfier-balloon occurred in 1785, when trying to cross the Channel from France to England. Two…
A Worner 1000 STU gas balloon, of German registry D-OAGH, piloted by a commercial pilot was substantially damaged during landing, when the hydrogen-filled envelope came in contact with a power line,…
A hydrogen leak occurred on a flange located on a pipe coming from the hydrogen storage tank. The staff was confined and the Internal Operation Plan was launched.Helium was injected in the tank and…