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Ah, yes, the “Mistakes were made” passive voice.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistakes_were_made



Excuse me??? What an uncharitable interpretation of my comment.

I highlighted an example of a more catastrophic mistake, familiar to engineers, which was apparently forgotten in this case. Bridges are resonant structures; this is 100% predictable through modeling but that was not done.

Sibling comments point out the Hyatt walkway (news to me, I only took first year mech eng but learned about "galloping Gertie" in elementary school because it was a local and recent catastrophe). Other comments note that the construction crew must have noticed. That this was not escalated points to a communication breakdown similar to the root cause of the Hyatt walkway.


What an uncharitable interpretation of their comment :)


Chill, dude. Hbarka was agreeing with you.




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