ago a national Transportation safety board met with reporters they said that they will be working around the clock to determine what caused that cargo ship to collide with the bridge and whether that bridge was properly reinforced so tonight we have new information on the investigation and what video shows just moments before impact Chief investigative reporter Eric Flack is on this part of the big story for us and Flack this is not the first time this specific vessel has been involved in a coll
ision is that correct that's right Simone the cargo ship known as the dolly was headed from Baltimore to Sri Lanka and this is new this hour according to the ship tracking service vessel finder it was previously involved in a collision with a pier in ANP Belgium in 2016 now that uh Collision caused significant damage to the ship no injuries were reported in connection with that collision and it now appears possible that this morning's incident was even more devastating the video of the cargo shi
p colliding with the Francis Scott Key bridge comes from stream time live which provides a live look at the bridge at 1:24 a.m. the ship appears to lose power going dark right there as it continues barreling toward the bridge we're speeding up the video here but roughly 60 seconds pass before power appears to return to the ship and the lights come back on about a minute later an apparent second power failure and the cargo ship goes Dark Again the power returns 30 seconds later but by then it's t
oo late to avoid the bridges Pier the collision and bridge collapse comes at 1:28 a.m. just 4 minutes after the entire scenario began as we play the video One More Time pay close attention to all those Vehicles crossing the bridge just moments before impact minutes were the difference between those Vehicles being on the bridge when the cargo ship brought it down Maryland governor Wes Moore said the ship's crew issued a Mayday call moments before the crash enabling authorities to limit vehicle tr
affic on the span but Tuesday the national Transportation safety board offered no information about when that Mayday call came one former NTSB investigator told me he would like to see the agency require Bridges with Crossing arms that could immediately stop traffic much like railroads obviously we don't want uh vehicle passengers driving off the end of a broken bridge so uh I think the board should consider um you know recommendations to uh require the immediate development of those systems and
implementation on Bridges Nationwide we did reach out to an NTSB spokesperson about that idea but she said it was way too early in the investigation to comment on that back to you Eric thank you
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What a nightmare. I’m sorry for the victim’s family and also thankful that the bridge wasn’t full of traffic when it went down.
So I guess I don’t have an irrational fear of bridges
Just moments earlier there were dozens of vehicles on that bridge.
The engines were in full reverse at the time, which is why the ship didn’t go straight through the pillars and kept on moving. It is like trying to stop a car going down a hill on ice. Also, on ships like these, when you lose power, the rudder doesn’t work anymore. The reason they were turning is because the channel is a left turn out. Which is why the rudder was pointed left to begin with. The rudder is motor powered so when they lose power they can’t change the angle of the rudder which is why they kept turning. And for everyone saying they need tugs, the ship is controlled by a pilot that boards the ship only for the trip out then he gets off again. They are the most skilled drivers of the port so the actual captain wasn’t actually piloting the ship when it crashed. It also doesn’t help that the ship was in an accident 4 years prior and sustained damages to the rudder which were never fixed. In my opinion it is the shipping company’s fault for not taking care of their ships.
A report said the Key Bridge was old and not maintained. The Key Bridge was built in 1977. The Key Bridge is not old. The George Washington Bridge was built in 1927 and Brooklyn Bridge was built in 1869. The cargo ship Dali has had trouble before in Sri Lanka.
Please note that the ship was being piloted by two pilots - not by any of its crew - as is the norm. The ship’s crew does not get control until the ship is in international waters.
Looks like they got to keep turning on the lights to make sure they hit the pier
Guy: Invents bridges big enough for boats to pass under them Boat: Nothing Can Stop ME. IM HIM
Within 4 minutes they limited traffic on the bridge. Hmm
As it is noted when the power is told to you that it comes back on at 1:20. The shio is steered right into a DIRECT path of what it will hit/RUN INTO. This was done on purpose. Signed-Richard.
Pass a law that no ship passes a bridge with out 2 tug boats
Why did the ship turn at the last minute to hit the post of the bridge.. looks like the ship would have made it clear if they didn’t do that
New fear unlocked. But also me: I live in the middle of the desert where there is so little water that it's illegal to plant grass..
That black smoke is the Diesel engine accelerating…
What’s the explosion on the top on the bridge where it broke. That created a breaking point.
cheese bridge , very clever engineers and builders there 😢
Notice the billow of smoke meaning full power to the engines as it gets lines up the hit the bridge…. Weird
There was a couple other Bridges around the world that got hit something's going on
Notice on the piling, not the one that the boat hit into as the bridge was collapsing. There was an explosion.!!! How does cement and steel explode ???
I know this might sound dumb. I don’t have the slightest clue but it looks like they dumped the anchor which made it veer right like that.