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Taking out a ferry or bridge is way too difficult

Thinking back a few weeks--taking out the I-40 bridge in eastern Oklahoma wasn't real difficult. Of course, that one seems to be an accident, but still has a lot of unanswered questions. Like,

Why didn't a crew of 6 notice the tug being way off course (outside the shipping channel) for 20+ minutes before the impact?

[One I'd ask is--Has anyone checked the tugboat's captain/crew to see if any of them had a recent significant increase of wealth in their bank accounts.]

" Why didn't a crew of 6 notice the tug being way off course "

I have a hard time imagining America "terrorized" by hijacked tugboats.

Barge work is infinitely boring. You go up the river, you go down the river. Twenty minutes is a second in their lives. They are union guys who get a day off with pay for every day they work. They get paid and they party or go home to their families. The "Captain" passed out for whatever reason and the crew didn't respond appropriately. SNAFU is the term of the day. But your point that it is not that difficult to take out a bridge is right on. In Chaos Theory it is said that a butterfly flapping its wings in Houston may cause a hurricane in a far land. So who knows what the introduction of terrorism in the US of A might result in? I would hope it might be the demise of lots of bad guys but like I asked, Who Knows?