A show about engineering failures and disasters. We examine the technical, human and organisational causes of failure, and explore why our decision-making is not nearly as rational as we’d like to think.
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episode 19: Stranger than Fiction
The collapse of the I-40 bridge in 2002 was a tragedy, but its aftermath was a story you simply couldn't make up.
It begins with a barge, a bridge, and an impostor, and it ends with a prison sentence, Vladimir Putin, and cheque fraud in Alaska.
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A photograph of the collapse is available at http://www.wkbw.com/news/photos-historic-bridge-collapses-in-the-us#id18
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