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On March 26th, 2024, at 1:28 am, a cargo ship called the Dali lost power.

The ship was heading straight toward the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

The captain sounded the horn to warn everyone.

But there wasn't enough time.

The Dali struck the bridge's main support column.

The entire bridge collapsed into the Patapsco River.

Eight workers died instantly.

One of the busiest ports on the East Coast was shut down.

But here's what nobody talks about:

The disaster was completely preventable.

The bridge had five critical engineering failures.

Failure one: No protective barriers.

The support columns were exposed to ship traffic.

There were no barriers to protect them.

Failure two: No traffic management system.

There was no real-time tracking of ships.

No automated warning system.

No way to divert the ship away from the bridge.

Failure three: No redundant support structures.

The entire bridge depended on a single main column.

If that column failed, the whole bridge collapsed.

Failure four: No emergency response infrastructure.

The eight workers had no warning.

No time to evacuate.

No system to stop traffic on the bridge.

Failure five: No regulatory oversight.

The bridge was 47 years old.

It had never been upgraded to modern safety standards.

No protective barriers required.

No redundant structures required.

No safety upgrades required.

Eight workers died because of these five failures.

But every single failure was preventable.

With proper engineering, they would still be alive.

This is SYSTEM COLLAPSE!