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Fatality count might have been higher. tragically, the train was running about a half hour late due to the stop to repair the air conditioning. had the train been on time, it would have crossed the bridge before the "mauvilla" ran into it. >> i think this investigation just confirmed for me a couple of longstanding philosophies that i've had. one is that every accident is kind of a chain reaction. there is five or six links in the chain that all have to happen in order for an accident to happen. >> they never did put in the same amount of tie-downs at the ends of the bridge to hold it in place...

A wooden trestle. the center section was totally destroyed. despite its design, the swing feature of the bridge was never used, and investigators discovered it wasn't connected properly. >> since they never did use it as a swing bridge, they never did put in the same amount of tie-downs at the ends of the bridge to hold it in place. >> divers also examined the wood pilings that supported the bridge. >> we wanted to determine if the piles had undergone any kind of deterioration, such as damage from wood-destroying organisms like soft rot or brown rot decay. >> under a powerful microscope, scien...

Stopped on the bridge, or the fatality count might have been higher. tragically, the train was running about a half hour late due to the stop to repair the air conditioning. had the train been on time, it would have crossed the bridge before the "mauvilla" ran into it. >> i think this investigation just confirmed for me a couple of longstanding philosophies that i've had. one is that every accident is kind of a chain reaction. there is five or six links in the chain that all have to happen in order for an accident to happen. >> they never did put in the same amount of tie-downs at the ends of ...

Tragically, the train was running about a half hour late due to the stop to repair the air-conditioning. had the train been on time, it would have crossed the bridge before the "mauvilla" ran into it. >> i think this investigation just confirmed for me a couple of longstanding philosophies that i've had. one is that every accident is kind of a chain reaction. there is five or six links in the chain that all have to happen in order for an accident to happen. >> they never did put in the same amount of tie-downs at the ends of the bridge to hold it in place. therefore, it wasn't as resistant to ...

Despite its design, the swing feature of the bridge was never used, and investigators discovered it wasn't connected properly. >> since they never did use it as a swing bridge, they never did put in the same amount of tie-downs at the ends of the bridge to hold it in place. >> divers also examined the wood pilings that supported the bridge. >> we wanted to determine if the piles had undergone any kind of deterioration such as damage from wood-destroying organisms like soft rot or brown rot decay. >> under a powerful microscope, scientists examined the cell walls of the samples. they looked for...