A picture of the worst day of a professional engineer's life
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Re: A picture of the worst day of a professional engineer's life
#2Direct to the wonderful NTSB digest: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/...
Re: A picture of the worst day of a professional engineer's life
#3Direct to the wonderful NTSB digest: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/...
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#4Direct to the wonderful NTSB digest: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/...
I like the 3-D printed model of what went wrong on the last page. A picture worth a lot of words.
Did anyone else having trouble scrolling through this in Acrobat Reader? PgDn and touchpad scroll both skip from page 2 to page 4 for me, then scrolling back up hits page 3 and skips to page 1. Scrolling down from page 3 took me as far as page 6.
Re: A picture of the worst day of a professional engineer's life
#5Damn
I actually guessed what this was going to be
Or not really
I was thinking, it won't be this but maybe it should be
So I was wrong
Then I thought, well it was a lot worse for the people who got killed and their surviving family members
Was anybody ever held accountable? I figured the powers that be would largely agree on a fall guy -- maybe some subcontractor
To keep the American dream alive that we can build garbage and not have it actually be garbage
Re: A picture of the worst day of a professional engineer's life
#6How is it the worst? Six people died and no one went to prison. NTSB report conveniently blamed everyone (FIU, FIGG, FDOT, MCM, and Bolton Perez), so as a result no one was punished. They just started building new bridge in same spot.
I just killed six people and all I got was a strongly worded letter and increased insurance premiums is not the worst day in engineers life.
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#7How is it the worst? Six people died and no one went to prison. NTSB report conveniently blamed everyone (FIU, FIGG, FDOT, MCM, and Bolton Perez), so as a result no one was punished. They just started building new bridge in same spot. I just killed six people and all I got was a strongly worded letter and increased insurance premiums is not the worst day in engineers life.
Simply "6 people killed and I had something to do woth it" would do it for me and make it the worst day of my life (by far).
Re: A picture of the worst day of a professional engineer's life
#8Oh no, the engineers had a bad day! (6 people died)
Re: A picture of the worst day of a professional engineer's life
#9Oh no, the engineers had a bad day! (6 people died)
Are you insinuating that accidentally killing 6 people with engineering oversight is not a bad day for the engineer that designed that bridge, via sarcasm?