Tacoma Narrows: The Bridge That Danced Itself to Death

On the morning of the seventh of November, 1940, a four-month-old suspension bridge in Washington State began to move in a way no large bridge had ever been seen to move. Within hours, in a wind that would barely trouble a sailing boat, it tore itself completely apart. This is what happened. CHAPTERS 00:00 Cold open 01:30 Scene 1: The bridge and the slenderness 08:30 Scene 2: The galloping 16:00 Scene 3: The morning of November 7th 23:30 Scene 4: The twist 31:00 Scene 5: The film and the witnesses 38:00 Scene 6: What the engineers did not yet know 45:00 Scene 7: The investigation 52:00 Scene 8: What Tacoma Narrows changed 59:00 Scene 9: The bridge that was bought without a death 65:30 Scene 10: What endures This is Episode 5 of Post-Mortem Files. New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe so you don't miss the rest of the series. Which warning sign do you think they should have caught first? Tell us below. #Disasters #AccidentInvestigation #AviationDisasters #IndustrialAccidents #accidentinvestigation