The phrase "a potential fiasco" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a situation that has the possibility of going wrong or resulting in failure.
Example: "The project's lack of planning could lead to a potential fiasco if we don't address the issues soon."
Alternatives: "a possible disaster" or "a likely failure."
In 1966, then Mayor Johnson of Berkeley called BART a "billion dollar potential fiasco".
Colorado has its own potential fiasco in the making.
The participants on the New Zealand side remember little, if anything, about the "potential fiasco".
"It is probable that this potential fiasco may only have been averted because of our phone calls – it is apparent to us that neither the minister nor anyone else in the Labour government seems to have thought there was anything wrong with a senior minister hosting such an event".
Sensing the potential fiasco we were walking into, my friend Brian Huskey took the stage first and worked the crowd.
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The satisfaction was evident in the wide grin sported on Friday by Senator Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican and majority leader, as he prepared to celebrate on the floor with his colleagues — a stark reversal from his downcast demeanor when the bill momentarily teetered Thursday evening in a potential replay of the health care fiasco.
In a story that seems equal parts spy novel and potential municipal fiasco, Mr. Newsom was enlisted on Monday to coax a secret code out of a city engineer who prosecutors say had effectively hijacked a large part of the city's computer systems.
It was, in a word, a fiasco.
Dark clouds over a wintry London presaged a fiasco.
