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Catastrophic Failure
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A catastrophic failure is a sudden and total failure from which recovery is impossible. Catastrophic failures often lead to cascading systems failure. The term is most commonly used for structural failures, but has often been extended to many other disciplines in which total and irrecoverable loss occurs, such as a head crash occurrence on a hard disk drive. Such failures are investigated using the methods of forensic engineering, which aims to isolate the cause or causes of failure. (Wikipedia)
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Any mention of possible terrorism?
It's just a ship that crashed into a flimsy bridge.
I mean I can't speak to how "flimsy" this particular bridge is, but it was hit by a container ship. Those things weigh in the hundreds of thousands of tons. It doesn't much matter how sturdy your bridge is, it's going down.
Then that bridge needed to be reinforced a long time ago, or ships like that shouldn't be allowed there. This was a flimsy bridge for what it is dealing with.
Again, getting hit head on by a cargo ship, you may as well be throwing the empire State building at it. There is not a bridge on earth that would survive that collision.
The bridge got hit by what is effectively a floating skyscraper
No, but it's a big head on static structure collision