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A Collision of Guilt: What Caused the Sunshine Skyway Bridge Disaster?
The Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse is one of the most tragic and haunting bridge disasters in U.S. history. On May 9, 1980, a freighter collided with a support pier during a violent storm, causing a ...
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45 years later: Remembering the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse
After the collapse, crews tore down most of what remained, leaving behind the ends that are now fishing piers. The new "Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge" was rebuilt seven years later and ...
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Majority of U.S. bridges lack impact protection. After the Key Bridge collapse, will anything change?
"Or they might do what they did at Sunshine Skyway: Put an island in front of it." NTSB preliminary report of Key Bridge collapse The National Transportation Safety Board is working to determine ...
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NTSB: Key Bridge was nearly 30 times above acceptable risk for bridges at time of collapse
in response to the NTSB’s investigation of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse in Florida. At the time, AASHTO also recommended that all bridge owners conduct the vulnerability assessment on ...
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The day a Florida bridge fell into the bay, taking down a bus and killing 35
A mayday call from the pilot of the Summit Venture reporting the collapse can be heard in ... his yellow Buick Skylark off the Sunshine Skyway Bridge into Tampa Bay. He is damn glad to be ...
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NTSB: Jacksonville’s Dames Point Bridge should be evaluated for risk of collapse from vessel strike
in response to the NTSB’s investigation of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse in Florida,” NTSB said in its news release. “At the time, AASHTO also recommended that all bridge owners ...
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NTSB recommends 68 bridges in U.S. be evaluated for risk of collapse. See the full list.
Some of the bridges include the Golden Gate Bridge in California, the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City and the Sunshine Skyway ... the 68 bridges are certain to collapse, but rather those bridge ...
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NTSB says lack of 'vulnerability assessment' by Maryland officials preceded deadly Key Bridge collapse
The bridge collapsed ... System in 1991 in response to the NTSB’s investigation of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse in Florida. At the time, AASHTO also recommended that all bridge owners ...
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Louisiana bridges need assessment after Baltimore collapse, federal study finds
A DOTD engineer, citing computer modeling, said the crash should have caused the bridge to collapse, and state officials said that the Sunshine Bridge is seen by the agency as one of its "fracture ...
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One year after Baltimore bridge collapse, NTSB finds 68 US bridges need to be assessed for risk of collapse if hit by ship
the Sunshine Skyway in Florida and the Mackinac Bridge in Michigan all made the list. “A risk level above the acceptable threshold doesn’t mean a collapse from a vessel collision is an ...