[Solson]

Have you seen the video link posted on Drudge? How did the whole span fall together at the same time? It’s wierd how both ends go at the same time. I would have expected one joint to go and then the rest.

[TBall]

That was what I was wondering. It looks like the bridge failed at two places at the same time. Don’t know much about bridges, but it will be interesting to read the explanation.

[Lady Jag]

One witness used a rubber band analogy to describe how parts of the bridge fell, snapped and twisted... the mechanics of stretching a rubber band then letting it go.

Engineers say the open construction virtually guaranteed when one section failed the whole bridge would collapse.