How the Baltimore bridge collapsed after the cargo ship collision

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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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31 COMMENTS

  1. Don't worry! Joe already said the federal government would cover the entire bill for repair! With taxpayer money of course…and to the families of the deceased, don't be upset, because Joe knows exactly how you feel! He lost a son, you know!

  2. 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?

  3. So now the large bridge sunk to the bottom and it got larger? Oh yes the steel aborsorbed water on the bottom. Don't forget the mudd stuck to the steel also. They can reuse and have some left. Profit for sure!

  4. 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?

  5. Doomed from the start, junk built bridge, lacked safety barriers & vessel maintenance. Ive seen vessels loose main & aux propulsion on others. The owner knew before heading out & set out anyway with passengers who couldn't swim, also lacking serviceable PFDs. Motor blew, oil dumped in water, elec power drained, started sinking. Un- cert or lic to operate. It was lack of knowledge, training, experience & maintenance – unqualified to make decisions, they still don't understand the severity, still operating. Those kind of people say, we'll do what we want. Doomed, it will end in disaster, 3 sinkings, 3 motors in a row. .. we dont get on those vessels.

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