NEW Drone footage by NTSB federal investigators shows extent of Baltimore Bridge disaster
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Published 2024-03-27
Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board released new footage showing the extent of the damage wrought by a cargo ship that slammed into the bridge, taking it down.
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All Comments (21)
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Those few people that just crossed that bridge before this happened should be thankful for sure. So sad people lost their life and I send condolences to their fam and friends.
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only when you remind yourself, how big such a single container is, can you realise how massive this thing is. It looks like a toy at first.
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I have driven over that bridge at least a thousand times. It is nearly 200 feet high at its apex. It would have to be a miracle to survive a fall from that height. It took 5 years to build that bridge in the mid-1970s. It will take much longer today, especially now that they have to engineer against future failure due to a cargo ship running into supports. The Harbor Tunnel scares me just as much since it is nearing 70 years old and is corroding.
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😢 may those who lost their lives rest in peace.
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Praying for those who are trapped lost or missing. And their families
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You can see in the video that the sad truth is that the power line poles have much better protection from Ship Collision than the bridge supports.
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It is amazing to me how little protection there is in the water for the main support columns.
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I guess we didn’t learn from the Sunshine Skyway accident in 1980. These steel bridges with no concrete bumpers surrounding the bridge supports are an accident waiting to happen. And here we are!
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I'm going to make a prediction. Shipping lane will be back open within three months. The bridge won't be replaced for five or more years.
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The sheer volume of containers that modern cargo ships carry is pretty astonishing! What a terrible disaster this was.
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That ship is a monster.
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My heart is so broken for the construction workers.
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The fallout from this will be devastating. Job loss, Port closed, the removal of the bridge from the water. It'll take over a year to get this back again.
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I'm blown away; do to the fact that this Key Bridge did not have any Concrete Fenders to protect the structure from this scenario. And another factor, that Cargo Ships are now 2-3 times larger now. One more thing, common sense goes a long way; why wasn't there any Tug Boats mandated to escort these large Cargo Ships through the bridge. This should've never happened. My Prayers go out to the families that lost there love ones, hope they are found, so they can have closure.
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The transmission lines seem to have more protection than the bridge supports....
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you dont realize how big is the container ship until you see how small the other boats are.
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This didn’t just happen, this was just waiting to happen. Once we don’t upgrade our infrastructure to match the potential dangers that we created by allowing larger and larger ships to come in and out of this port, we are just waiting for something like this to happen.
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Power poles have better protection then that bridge does.
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And this reconfirms my phobia of crossing bridges totally...Especially one like that.
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When you think about it, it's pretty stupid to NOT build something to protect the main bridge supports from collision with a huge ship at a busy shipping port.
