参议员Marco Rubio在事故当晚发的推特称工程师正重新张拉松掉的索:
“The cables that suspend the #Miami bridge had loosened & the engineering firm ordered that they be tightened,” Rubio tweeted after 11 p.m. “They were being tightened when it collapsed today.”
由于当时还没有架设索塔,推测他所指的cables应该是桁架桥的预应力筋(tendon) 。
事故后在支座处发现破坏的千斤顶和崩出的预应力筋
目击者Jose Mejia称:桥梁坍塌时,有个蓝色盒子从起重机掉下来,导致坍塌发生。