>the Hyatt bridge collapse a year earlier was a couple of orders of magnitude worse (114 people, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collap...

>the Hyatt bridge collapse a year earlier was a couple of orders of magnitude worse (114 people, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collap... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collap...) from what was also a fairly subtle engineering failure. It wasn't subtle at all. The entire design was substandard to begin with and didn't meet code. Suspending a walkway from a piece of square tubing made by welding two pieces of C-channel together was ALREADY pants-on-head retarded, and undersized to boot. Deciding it's OK to hang the lower span off the upper span's substandard tubing was just the last step in a long chain of gross engineering negligence. Calling it a "subtle" failure is like calling Challenger subtle because it was "just a leaky O-ring", or the Apollo I fire subtle because it was "just a tiny spark". There was a completely avoidable cascade of multi-level failure leading up to all of them.