breakdown *
equipment failure

Equipment failure can be worked around if you know what to do.

Two hours later I had the call: she was dead because of equipment failure.

"Are you sure there isn't an equipment failure on this end?"

Only two were blamed even in part on equipment failure.

For one thing, the film was plagued with equipment failure.

Another equipment failure could be disastrous, as it almost was today.

"We lost contact with them so quickly that I have to assume they had equipment failure."

Suddenly she realized they might have more problems than random equipment failure.

We want to be sure it is only some sort of equipment failure.

The cause appears to be equipment failure on their end.