What happens when the wrong person is in the wrong place at the wrong time? It’s usually the perfect bad combination that precipitates a tragedy. It is the anti-Coelian response to the conspiracy of the Universe that everything is conspiring to go wrong.

In the book by the journalist Stelios Vradelis “The Wrong Man, in the Wrong Place, at the Wrong Time“, published by Papazisi publications, are examined 35 cases where human error most tragically defined the lives of thousands of people. Like that of the pilot who let his children pilot the plane on a transcontinental flight and they crashed it, the captain who couldn’t read nautical charts and sank his ship with more than 4000 dead, the pilots and engineer who forgot to flip a switch and sentence 121 people to death.

The book includes 8 different accident categories because of the wrong people, in the wrong place at the wrong time. Airline accidents where a grammatical error brought down a plane, pilots who smoked in the cockpit and blew up planes, traffic controllers who didn’t know how to speak English and sent planes crashing, parts left on the runway that killed dozens of unsuspecting passengers. Maritime tragedies from drunken captains, or crew members who did not know how to secure vehicles inside ships. Deadly fires that started from a shack, fires that were set voluntarily to clear land and in the end devastated cities and have been burning for over 60 years. Sports tragedies caused by a forgotten closed door or wrong police decision. Movie theater tragedies from fires that never caught fire, train wrecks starring stationmasters playing games on their cell phones or not knowing which way I sent the trains. Military failures from generals who couldn’t synchronize their clocks to the right time, armies that failed themselves, pilots who didn’t know how to fly their planes. Nuclear disasters that resulted from the immeasurable ambition of technical managers, and a country destroyed by forgotten tons of explosives.

The book attempts a review of these cases with the addition of new evidence arising from their investigation. The lessons they offered so that they are not repeated in the future and above all a reminder of how deadly human stupidity can become.