The next few months will be very interesting as far as bridge rebuilding, blame, funds, etc.
Any word on the poor victims? Scans found cars in the water and one guy was fished out, but nothing more.
Biden and Pete Buttplug are on the job...no worries.
"All crew members, including the two pilots have been accounted for and there are no reports of any injuries. There has also been no pollution," Synergy Marine said in a statement."
There is NO WAY that was an accident
Doubt terrorism (unless proven otherwise).
Maybe this is the Black Swan Event...................
The secretary of transportation, Pete Buttigieg, will be on this with his usual level of incompetency.
C.W.
Francis Scott Key: “And the bridge was(n’t) still there...”
I used to use that bridge a lot back when I was stationed in DC and went to the NCO Academy at McGuire AFB in New Jersey.
Back then we called the trip the Friday night I-95 500.
Appears to be electrical malfunction which apparently occurred previously. Maintenance records are the first clue to what occurred.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1772584535273734567
Why, when power was restored, did the ship turn toward the pier, rather than to port, toward the clear span of the bridge?
Another colossal failure while the secretary of transportation, Pete Buttgigger, is on duty…..
Prayers up for all involved - victims and their families, also rescue workers.
Looking at the picture, I wonder if they could have put a few more boxes on that ship......geeeez.
Ship was involved in something 2016
https://nypost.com/2024/03/26/us-news/francis-scott-key-bridge-collapse-live-updates-latest-news/
Was there a power outage on the Ship just prior to it veering into the Bridge? It looked like all the lights went out, then when they came back on, there was black smoke above the ship consistent with the return of power and the effort to correct the direction of the ship.
Yet, now they claim accident without knowing why the power was out on the Ship.
This is consistent with a computer hack shutting down or redirecting the steering on the Ship.
We need to check this out.
Is it retaliation for the attack in Moscow? One wonders, but of course has no evidence...
With a simple Youtube search, one can find compilations of dozens and dozens of incidents of large ships inexplicably crashing into infrastructure. I think Occam’s razor would lean far more toward equipment failure than terrorism.
The next few months will be very interesting as far as bridge rebuilding, blame, funds, etc.
Any word on the poor victims? Scans found cars in the water and one guy was fished out, but nothing more.
Without reading 500 posts, I’ll just copy what I wrote elsewhere…
local here. I’m about a half hour away. Didn’t know about this until this morning. 6:30 I heard radio guys talking as if something closed the bridge. Didn’t think much of it. Then wake up later 9:30 hear a ship hit the Key and brought it down.
First off, enough with the 2nd-guessing the engineering, etc. I was an engineer, though not civil, just mechanical. Simply speaking you can only design for so much. World Trade Center wasn’t designed for large airplanes full of fuel deliberately charging for it. The piers are a “key” structure for a bridge. Bring it down and likely the whole thing comes down. Who cares about the timing? This was a truss bridge, not a suspension. Either way, the manner it is designed, supported, and hit with what huge thing can affect how quickly it all falls. There are so many factors. Why call everyone into doubt?
Terrorism? No way. Just a huge ship, not at all uncommon here, losing its way and having massive momentum, and exerting massive force when it hits.
The film comes from several points which film in that direction. I can’t remember if they said Ft. Smallwood or Ft. Armistead. There is also supposed to be helicopter footage. I think you can see it going by just before the collapse.
As far as cars - when I saw the full wide angle, it did not look like any passing cars were even on the end of the bridge at the exact time it collapsed. Plenty before that, and the vehicles there were likely the work trucks as I heard about crew being on it and thus the workers who walked out of the water. There have been reports that somehow people were trying to stop traffic from getting on. Apparently JUST in time, because the few seconds before it struck zero moving cars were on it. So likelY indeed only workers were involved, of which now they say are 8.
All I had heard early this morning was that the bridge was closed….thought maybe an accident or some other safety inspection closed it. But they were right, this is going to mess up some traffic for a long time. Key bridge is part of the beltway. Went over it on the “Trump Train” back in 2020.
My biggest question would be, why do we rely so much on electrical? Or did the mechanical actually fail and thus the electrical went out? I don’t know how some of these modern ships are built. I’d imagine the engines usually create the electrical, but maybe just battery banks that have generators to re-stock them. If it was really 1 screw (someone mentioned this) and it really ran on electric, that may not be enough redundancy.
September 2013: Bay Bridge opened at a cost of $6.5 billion.May 2015: Tests showing signs of saltwater intrusion into the bridge tower’s foundation and damage to its anchor rods. In addition, there were reports that anchor bolts holding the Bay Bridge signature tower to the bay floor failed.
January 2016: Big chunk of concrete fell from Bay Bridge tunnel at the Yerba Buena Island.
February 2016: Steel reinforcements on Bay Bridge tunnel show signs of corrosion.
February 2017: Lights went out on the bridge during the morning commute.
August 2017: Questions arise regarding strength of steel supporting the bridge.
January 2018: Microbes corroding submerged Bay Bridge welds.
This report only goes to 2018, I can only imagine the problems in the ensuing six years.
Bkmk