The development news about the Key Bridge is horrible.

[imanamerican63]

The bridge was struck by a cargo ship.

I’m afraid people will take the opportunity and advantage to boast themselves making unwarranted comments and claims.

Hopefully the media will not give them any credence to their claims.

This was horrible and needs to be addressed as an accident and nothing else.

I pray for those who were on the bridge at the time of the accident.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. This bridge collapse is horrible

Link to tweet

[Hassin Bin Sober]

2. Here is that video in regular speed

Definitely lost power, regains power twice. Then heavy black smoke @2:10 probably trying to reverse or steer out of it.



0:59 ship lights go off
1:58 lights go back online
3:03 lights go off again
3:36some lights are back online
5:09crash

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[Alliepoo]

6. Oh. My. Gosh.

Horrific.

[Walleye]

3. It looks like the steering went out on the ship. A huge vessel

[no_hypocrisy]

4. An accident

Only two scenarios come to mind:

A) A major mechanism malfunctioned, causing the ship to go off course, or

B) Human error, whether it was the captain or mates who were supposed to be navigating the ship.

[Blues Heron]

5. Could have been sabatoge

Too early to know

[GoneOffShore]

7. The harbour pilots were navigating by all accounts.

[Scrivener7]

8. When something like this happens, my heart of course goes out to the killed and injured and their families.

But also, can you imagine being the person or people whose human error led to it, or who were in control when the accident hit?

That has got to eat you alive.

[imanamerican63]

9. No, and a truck driver, I see horrible things and wonder the same thing.

[Scrivener7]

10. I imagine you do. It's hard work you do, for so many reasons.

[Amishman]

11. I expect them to exploit this and can see the avenue of attack

This will be exploited using their well worn 'America First' talking point.

I expect them to criticize the lack of updates made to the bridge for decades following the Sunshine Skyway collapse in 1980. They'll claim were spending too much money on foreign countries when we should be spending it here on security. I also expect them to reference Ukraine assistance spending in that attack as well.