Bad luck has a way of showing up at the worst possible moment, and bad timing follows closely behind, ready to stir chaos that nobody expected.
All it took for these 12 tragedies was one small misstep and one small miscalculation to set off a series of catastrophic events.
A child at the controls of a plane, a boy trapped underwater in his seatbelt, or a waitress who set a bar ceiling on fire. That’s how some of these unimaginable events began and ended with a doomed fate.