How the Baltimore bridge collapsed after the cargo ship collision

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Published 2024-03-31
Demolition crews have started removing the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge as the families of six construction workers grieve and investigators question how the fully-loaded cargo ship tragically lost control. NBC’s Tom Costello reports in this week’s Sunday Focus.

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All Comments (21)
  • @1wwtom
    I retired at the end of 2022 after working for 50 years at most every port facility in Baltimore. Back in the mid 70's when the bridge was built no one imagined that container ships would become so large. In those 50 years there has never been a problem with them till now. Maybe some of these behemoths are too large to safely come in here.
  • @Clementinewoofwoof
    I’m going to be honest here, it’s extremely concerning how quickly that bridge fell apart
  • @Bigwingrider1800
    It shouldn't take 12-24 months to figure out what REALLY happened.
  • @zeenaabdura5686
    What happened to the live camera of the ship? We all want to watch the workers remove the bridge pieces. Give up the live camera
  • @khrystalkhoury62
    Im sure he meant to say, "Our prayers are with the families....".
  • @cathyt144
    That bridge fell like dominoes.such a tragedy. Support beams should have been protected and the ship was too large and traveling too fast.
  • @morromk7538
    Hey it’s the reporter from curb your enthusiasm “ Disgruntled”
  • @williamt1579
    It’s suspicious that the ship was working fine until it got within a certain distance of the bridge… then it “lost power”. It makes me think some crew member may have intentionally sabotaged the ship.
  • @user-ng4nn4zw6r
    Since there were no billowing oceanic waves present in the water that night, where did the force(s) come from to knock the ship off its initial trajectory towards the open waters and redirect it towards the bridge pillar?
  • @reggieseel5106
    Now thats stupid. You have never worked on a ship ,have you ?
  • @uncleshawnofthejungle29
    I'm going to Monday morning quarterback this but if it was such a critical port with so many ships in an out and so many vehicles traveling across the bridge and employees billions of dollars etc. why were the embankments never expanded to a more suitable standard? You don't have to rebuild the entire bridge to make the bridge embankment larger. A little forethought to the potential of a ship running into a pillar?
  • @stro3277
    America: Why can't we build bridges... Mark Rober: Let me have a crack at it... The future: Its the most advanced ever built in all of history.
  • @MsPinkCrusader
    America's mistake, they knew large cargo ships routinely pass under the bridge. Why they never build reinforcement? It was not a "terrorist" attack.
  • @Twinacuity
    I feel like Magneto could have prevented this