Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
To hear all of these conspiracy theories, one would think no bridge had ever collapsed before.
(And from what I’ve heard, there were two local pilots on the ship at the time this happened.)
“From what you’ve heard”?!? Why isn’t that “from what we KNOW”? Someone just has to ask and then tell us.
Doesn’t it concern you that nearly 24 hours after the “accident” we haven’t asked the people on board what happened? I’m hearing “bad fuel”, the pilot put the boat in the wrong gear”, the crew was sleepy, turned on auto pilot (which malfunctioned) and went to bed while in the harbor, etc. What have you heard that makes more sense than those ridiculous speculations. Again, why don’t we ask the guy behind the wheel?
I had a wreck once. Guess what the first thing the cop asked me was? Yep, you got it. He asked me what happened and I told him. He didn’t call in accident “experts” to guess and tell him.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, until the load in it goes BOOM!
I’m with you. Ship/Barge vs Bridge collisions aren’t exactly rare.