One Gas Leak Nearly Brought Down an Entire Tower | Ronan Point UK

At 6am on May 16th, 1968, a woman in a London tower block struck a match to light her stove. She had no idea gas had leaked into her flat overnight. The explosion that followed blew out a single wall panel — and took down an entire corner of a 22-story building, floor by floor, all the way to the ground. This episode breaks down the Ronan Point collapse: the prefabricated construction method never designed for a building this tall, the missing structural redundancy that let one small explosion cascade into a total corner collapse, and how this single event rewrote building codes across the UK.