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In the early hours of March 26, 2024, the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed in seconds after being struck by a container ship that had lost power and steering control.

This video is a forensic engineering reconstruction of that failure.

Rather than repeating headlines or assigning blame, this analysis examines the mechanics of the collapse step by step. We break down the ship’s electrical failure, the loss of propulsion and steering, the kinetic energy of a 95,000-ton vessel at speed, and why the bridge’s protective dolphins were never designed to stop an impact of this magnitude. From there, we examine the bridge’s fracture-critical design — a structure with no redundancy — and explain why once a single support failed, collapse was inevitable.

Using principles from physics, civil engineering, and systems analysis, this video explains why the bridge did not slowly fail — it catastrophically gave way in seconds. This was not a chain of bad decisions in the moment. It was a system pushed beyond its design limits.

This is not speculation.
This is not hindsight bias.
This is an engineering autopsy of one of the most significant infrastructure failures in modern U.S. history.