>>1736954No, it's actually the way bridges are built. The Florida bridge was basically a new type of largely untested truss bridge type (nothing else quite like it) that they pre-assembled and then put into place, but for whatever reason it was installed wrong and one of the trusses connecting it to the already built pieces failed, and they removed the temporary shim stacks too early. By "clear engineering failures", it wouldn't have been noticed by the general public but by someone knowing how joints, load, and physics work. Same reason why the skywalk collapsed in 1981 in Kansas City.
