Train Wreck
Noun · Slang & Abbreviations
Definitions
A situation that is visibly falling apart and hard to stop watching. In engineering slang, a train wreck is the project, meeting, or deploy everyone knows is going badly in real time.
In plain English: A disaster that is visibly unfolding in front of everyone.
Example: "The release retro turned into a train wreck once each team presented a different version of who approved the schema change."