tvc184 Posted March 26 Report Posted March 26 How fast can tragedy happen? They are very lucky there are not more dead. I am assuming that the missing unfortunately will not be found alive. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Quote
tvc184 Posted March 26 Author Report Posted March 26 Sfroll to the 30 second mark to see the ship impact with the bridge. Quote
bullets13 Posted March 26 Report Posted March 26 Just read an article with more details than I'd been seeing: apparently the ship was having some sort of propulsion issue, and issued a mayday in slightly in advance. People on both sides were able to stop traffic from entering the bridge, meaning there were very few vehicles affected. It also sounds like most, if not all of the 6 missing people were part of a crew fixing potholes on the bridge. I'm not sure why they weren't contacted and evacuated in time. thetragichippy 1 Quote
Granite State Posted March 26 Report Posted March 26 Special feelings of sadness when I read about such a tragedy. My uncle sometimes, but not often, talked about a boyhood friend. How they played baseball and did other things together. The friend was one of the Army engineers on the Remagen Bridge doing maintenance when it collapsed. He died. Ironically the 79th anniversary of the collapse was just last week. Quote
Reagan Posted March 29 Report Posted March 29 I just heard that right before the impact the black box went blank for 2 minutes. Is this a normal thing that happens to black boxes? Quote
WOSdrummer99 Posted March 31 Report Posted March 31 This seems like the new normal. I wondered why there were no vehicles in the video of the collapse. But for this to be a direct hit on the tower is not by chance. There's no steering wheel on a ship anymore for someone to turn. All computerized and GPS controlled. So for the black box to have turned itself off. In the words of my old friend... 🐂💩 Quote
Reagan Posted March 31 Report Posted March 31 10 hours ago, WOSdrummer99 said: This seems like the new normal. I wondered why there were no vehicles in the video of the collapse. But for this to be a direct hit on the tower is not by chance. There's no steering wheel on a ship anymore for someone to turn. All computerized and GPS controlled. So for the black box to have turned itself off. In the words of my old friend... 🐂💩 I heard talk that the GPS on ships are not encrypted. There was recently a ship that had its GPS hacked. I don't recall if there was any damage. Quote
Reagan Posted April 16 Report Posted April 16 WOW! Looky here! FBI opens a criminal probe on the ship that destroyed the Baltimore bridge. Ol' JoeBama admin originally said they can rule out terrorism and really don't think there was any foul play taking place. And now this... This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Quote
tvc184 Posted April 16 Author Report Posted April 16 Surely we don’t know what will happen but the article implies that the investigation is based on criminal negligence and doesn’t even hint at terrorism. thetragichippy 1 Quote
Reagan Posted April 17 Report Posted April 17 12 hours ago, tvc184 said: Surely we don’t know what will happen but the article implies that the investigation is based on criminal negligence and doesn’t even hint at terrorism. True about terrorism. The point of the JoeBama Admin quote was showing how they jumped the gun. And, what, 2 weeks later they are having to swallow one of their statements. Curious how long it'll be before they'll have to swallow the terrorism statement. Curious to see how this turns out! Quote
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