Immediately after the I-35 bridge collapse in Minneapolis:

"Federal safety investigators said they planned to recover the components of the bridge and reassemble major parts of it to determine the cause. Mark Rosenker, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said the investigation may take a year or more. The reassembly can help the probe, not unlike the way aviation disasters are treated. "This will be a complex investigation... The first thing we must do is recover the pieces."

Was this really a "freak disaster" or just the predictable result of neglecting the nation's infrastructure for the past 20 years, wasting taxpayer money on foreign wars and other boondoggles instead? How many other obsolete bridges are there along the new NASCO Corridor for overweight Mexican trucks hauling Chinese shipping containers?

Contrast this with the rush to get rid of the steel beams and cleanup the WTC site after the disaster of 2001-09-11 . Why was there NO such careful analysis of the three catastrophic and unprecedented "structural failures" that occurred in NYC that day, despite the fact that thousands of people were killed and billions of dollars worth of property destroyed?

See: KTVU Minneapolis article (2007-08)