What is the first major disaster you remember

[Shmoigel]

The first one I clearly remember was the King’s Cross fire in 87 and Lockerbie in 88

Tell me yours

9/11 and then the Thailand tsunami. I’m 30.

I remember the invasion of Kuwait very clearly

Mountbatten’s assassination in 1979. And the invasion of the Falkland Islands & subsequent war in 1982.

Piper Alpha

King’s Cross and Lockerbie. I’m 48

also the hurricane in 87. We lived in Sussex at the time so experienced it first hand. Our village was devastated and cut off and we had no water or electricity for days

I remember the main character from allo allo had a tree come down on his car, and in the next series he had a line on his head.

Mrs Thatcher becoming prime minister

Challenger disaster. Newsround was the first tv news to show it as it happened about 40
mins earlier

the Munich Olympic Games massacre 1972. I was 5 and I remember news about it on the radio