Somewhere, there's an engineer who said "don't do that." He's been fired.
Question not being asked by the media. Why was a cable stayed bridge raised up and it’s lifting supports removed before the cable stays and tower were built?
Somewhere, there’s an engineer who said “don’t do that.” He’s been fired.
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Perhaps someone was more interested in meeting a project deadline than in doing it right.
Hell. It happened with the classic disaster of the Challenger Shuttle launch explosion. Engineers said don’t launch, it’s too cold for the seals. Project managers ignored them. People died. A $4B dollar spacecraft was destroyed.
“Somewhere, there’s an engineer who said “don’t do that.” He’s been fired.”
Somewhere there are three engineers who overruled him who are making frantic phone calls to their E&O insurers and/or retaining the best attorneys they can.