Hard to believe that something like this could happen when we're talking about people who have done their jobs for a long time and what looks in the video like not a small passage that they had to navigate. They were really off by a mile, so to speak.
I've seen a bridge disaster over water up close and personal, Minneapolis 35W bridge over the Mississippi River in 2007. I had just ridden over it on a motorcycle 30 minutes earlier, perfect summer day but lots of construction equipment on the bridge with the inside lanes closed and filled with paving trucks, jackhammer crews, etc.
I got home to my crib and called a friend in CA., when I told him that I was in Mpls, he asked about the bridge. "What bridge?" He told me to open my laptop or turn on the TV, when I did, I nearly shat my pants. I had just crossed it. I raced back down there and the scene was like 9/11 in NYC, full-on disaster response with hundreds of firefighters and cops working and both sides of the freeway bridge down in the water. Lots of dead people. It happened during afternoon rush hour. I remember Police SUVs pulling trailers with small boats rushing in from surrounding areas.
The tonnage of wreckage was mind-blowing but fortunately, the actual death toll was less than expected. I have photos somewhere on an old device, I'll try to dig them up. I feel for the people who perished, what a terrible way to die.
