I do so hate threads like this. Whattabunchamaroons.
In a few days maybe I’ll have some info. I don’t have any information yet but it is safe to say that [ahem] a certain company is going to have somebody on the scene tonight. More people in airplanes on their way now. This is going to be a big deal in engineering circles for years to come.
Like the Hyatt skyway collapse, but bigger.
Yeah - I figgered there were phone calls coming in there. We’ll have to wait for the TV show, probably.
One of the most spectacular structural disasters in US hitory, but fortunately, so far very light in actual deaths
1 . WTC collapse - 2595 deaths
2. 1938 St Francis dam collapse - more than 500 deaths
3. Kansas City hyatt bridge collapse - 114 deaths
4. The Ashtabula Creek Bridge wreck 1876 - 100 deaths
5. 1998 San Francisco Loma Prieta - I-880 Viaduct collapse 40 deaths