Officials said Unified Command salvage teams recovered the body of a sixth victim of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse Tuesday.
Officials said Unified Command salvage teams recovered the body of a sixth victim of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse Tuesday.
Crews used carefully placed explosives on Monday to break apart a large span of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland and send the mangled metal crashing into the water below. Video of the demolition showed the explosives detonating, with flashes of fire followed by a loud boom and a black plume of smoke. The steel truss then broke apart, falling away from the grounded Dali container ship, and into the water. As the metal crashed into the Patapsco River, a big wave of...
by WorldTribune Staff, May 16, 2024 Contract With Our Readers On March 26, the cargo ship Dali ran into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, causing the bridge to collapse. Seven weeks later, on May 13, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers set off a series of controlled explosions to help free the Dali. […]
Federal investigators revealed the Dali cargo ship experienced electrical blackouts 10 hours before leaving the Port of Baltimore and again just before it slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
PENSACOLA, Fla. — The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Diligence (WMEC 616) returned to their home port in Pensacola, April 26, 2024, after a two-month deployment spent conducting a living marine resources patrol in the Gulf of Mexico, undergoing a maintenance availability at the Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore, and later responding to the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse. Diligence’s crew patrolled within the U.S. Coast Guard Eighth District area of responsibility, based in New Orleans, and...
The body of 37-year-old José Mynor López, the sixth victim of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, has been located and his family has been notified.
The Unified Command used small detonation charges to cut a large portion of the steel frame wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, allowing the ship to be refloated and moved by tugboats to the Seagirt Marine Terminal in Baltimore.
The wreck of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge underwent a controlled demolition on Monday, removing the largest remaining span of the collapsed structure. Explosives used in the demolition flashed orange and plumes of black smoke could be seen upon detonation. Moments later the targeted area crumbled into the water. It marked a major step in freeing the Dali container ship, whcih has been stuck amind the wreckage since it lost power and crashed into the bridge on March 26. The collapse...
After a controlled demolition this week, the National Transportation Safety Board now has some answers about what happened to cause a ship to crash into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge in March.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a preliminary report Tuesday about the vessel that hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge nearly two months ago, including details on the ship's electrical outages and power loss a day prior.The collapse led to the deaths of six workers who were on the bridge filling potholes during the collision. The estimated cost to replace the bridge is between $1.7 to $1.9 billion, with a projected completion day of fall 2028.The NTSB worked with the...
Crews detonated explosives placed into precision cuts of the remaining truss of the collapsed Key Bridge that was resting on the Dali cargo ship.