What I wanna know is.How did the ship barely hit that pylon?And that entire bridge collapse.I mean seriously.You think that bridge wasn't bound to collapse
Anyone watch the traffic closely as the ship was approaching. Cars and tractor-trailers crossing just b/f it hits. At the time of impact, it did not appear any traffic was on the bridge. If so, that was amazing. Was that the result of police holding back traffic?
I guess the police wouldn't have had time to get to them to alert them. They JUST managed to stop the traffic in time with the last vehicle on the bridge off it only 40 seconds before impact! This means they only closed the bridge about 1.5m-2m before impact!
The last vehicle made it off the bridge just 40 seconds before impact. Incredible response by police officers in stopping traffic! They saved many lives.
At 0.01 ship is seen illuminated. At 0:15 the lights are out. At 1:14 the lights are back on. Shop's power is provided by generators in the engine room does the loss of lights indicate a power outage perhaps of the main engine also? Question...Is electrical power required to operate helm and rudder to maintain steering? Note also that there's no smoke visible above the ship until a plume of smoke begins at about 1:34 was that the engine restarting or was that an emergency order "all astern full"? Heavy smoke right up tp time of impact. NTSB is going to be very busy!
The traffic stoppage looks like happenstance. That, and drivers could possibly have seen the ship as they approached the bridge. If you'll notice, traffic from camera left stopped a long time before the camera right traffic.
This is what happens when you hire out more people with less training and less maintenance to save a buck. Going 8 knots... JFC 8 knots is the equivalent of going 50mph in a 15mph zone. Typically it’s a 3 to 4 Knots is normal high speed. Biden saying that he is going to have the government pays for its replacement... FJB make the company responsible pay for the bridge and the deaths and property damage on this. This is unacceptable. There is NO situation in that this could ever happen under normal conditions and even under sub optimal conditions. This was intentional, no if's and's or but's about it. There is no reason for it to be going that fast. Chances are they overloaded the electrical system that was probably in some poor maintenance when they tried to reverse. trying to slow down a 8knot container ship that size is like a human trying to hold back an elephant, yea eventually you will slow it down and get it to turn around but it's going to take a LOT OF TIME AND DISTANCE. Just trying to turn that ship takes a LOT OF DISTANCE. The course it had locked in for collision must have been 5 miles back; otherwise it would have hit it from the side. A head on like this is ABSOLUTELY intentional and 100% avoidable in every way.
