Design Flaw Said to Have Caused Minn. Bridge to Collapse
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A design flaw caused a Minnesota bridge to collapse last summer, killing 13 people and injuring 100 in an accident that focused renewed attention on the safety of the nation's highways and bridges, according to federal sources familiar with the investigation.
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When 13 people died last summer in the collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis, the National Transportation Safety Board found structural problems within days but expected a full investigation to take more than a year.
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An investigating board says the capsule was doomed by faulty engineering drawings that were done backward. The drawings led to incorrect placement of switches that were supposed to detect Genesis' re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.
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By The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Dec. 16--Missouri should aggressively pursue compensation from Ameren Corp. for the reservoir collapse last December that flooded beautiful Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park.   Attorney General Jay Nixon's recent lawsuit against the St.
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By CLIFTON ADCOCK  But after a recent collapse at a Big Splash ride, state officials may require it for water slides.
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A carnival ride accident that threw a man to his death last month was caused by a chain reaction that started when the safety bar holding the man and his companion in place failed, causing their weight to shift and snapping two bolts, the state said in a report released Friday.
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A federal agency blames improper rudder use and poor Airbus design for the Flight 587 crash that killed 265 in 2001. WASHINGTON - American Airlines Flight 587 lost its tail and plummeted into a New York City
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St. Paul, Minn., has blocked a well-known local developer from building an upscale mixed-use community directly across the river from the downtown area.
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Officials investigating the deadly Minneapolis bridge collapse are looking at an unlikely culprit: pigeons.
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A government-appointed board of inquiry investigating the partial collapse of a Paris airport terminal found serious errors in construction, including concrete that had not been sufficiently reinforced, a newspaper reported Monday.
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At least five people were taken to hospital on Saturday afternoon after an expressway overpass collapsed in the Montreal area, emergency officials said.
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A commuter van carrying workers from two aerospace companies collided head-on with a tractor-trailer Friday on a Mississippi River bridge, killing four people in the van and injuring four others, authorities said.
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By Edward J. Crowder, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Feb. 3--BRIDGEPORT -- In the late 1990s, state Department of Transportation employees working on the P.T. Barnum Bridge made a disturbing report to superiors.
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Engineers sought to determine what caused a temperature control system to malfunction after an aborted launch Saturday.
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A commuter van and a tractor-trailer collided early Friday on a Mississippi River bridge, killing four people and injuring four others, authorities said.
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The newest bridge over the River Clyde in Glasgow is shut after the failure of a steel cable.
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Poor record keeping coupled with a lack of communication worsened a dangerous situation triggered by the 2001 derailment of a freight train underneath the city's central business district, the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday.