State Audit Office collapse still demands answersOne year has passed since the collapse of the State Audit Office (SAO) building -- a broad-daylight engineering tragedy that shocked Thailand and, through countless video clips shared online, much of the world. Yet even after a year, the most important question remains unanswered: How could this building collapse in such a way? By then, the lower support system had already failed, and the upper building mass was left without support. This strongly suggests that the last phase of collapse was a near-free-fall vertical descent after the building had already lost its lower support system. Its main vertical support system was first destroyed in a matter of seconds.

Source: Bangkok Post March 26, 2026 18:34 UTC