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The reason a Dali cargo ship crashed into Baltimore’s Key Bridge and caused a catastrophic collapse may be revealed later today.
Officials say they have recovered the doomed freight’s black box from the wreckage, as National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy said it might provide answers.
‘From the data, we hope to develop a timeline of events that led up to the striking of the bridge,’ she told CBS Good Morning. ‘We hope to have that later today.’
It comes as rescue teams admitted their efforts have become a search for bodies, with six construction crewmembers believed to have been killed in the horror wreckage overnight Monday.
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy said she hopes the cargo ship’s black box will provide answers to the catastrophe
Investigations into how the vessel didn’t avoid the bridge are ongoing, with an initial report citing ‘propulsion’ fault as a potential cause
Stunning images show the mangled wreckage of the bridge hours after it was struck by the cargo ship
Homendy said the black box may be the key to understanding the accident, which had bewildered experts and led to slew of conspiracy theories online.
‘(The data) will provide us with a number of parameters, everything from location to positioning of the ship to speed, you name it,’ she said.
‘We’ll pull that together to make sure we have a very accurate timeline of what occurred. We’ll be able to see any sort of power loss, and will be able to report that later today.’
Officials were quick to rule out the catastrophe as intentional or an act of terrorism, and an early Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) report found the container ship ‘lost propulsion’ as it was leaving port.
‘The vessel notified MD Department of Transportation (MDOT) that they had lost control of the vessel and an allision with the bridge was possible,’ the report said. ‘The vessel struck the bridge causing a complete collapse.’
