NTSB Report: Cargo Vessel Lost Power Hours Before Fatal Crash
A cargo ship that struck Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in March, causing its deadly collapse, experienced an electrical blackout about 10 hours earlier in port.
The preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found the outage on the ship Dali resulted from a crewmember accidentally closing an exhaust damper and stalling the engine.
Baltimore Bridge Collapse: What We Know About NTSB Report and Recovery https://t.co/1IqvTqAOSd pic.twitter.com/KgUKwR3vPr
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BALTIMORE BRIDGE UPDATE: Ship that caused Key Bridge collapse had power blackouts before leaving port: NTSB report https://t.co/o2YmqY4xH5 @fox5dc
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After that initial blackout during maintenance at the Port of Baltimore, the Dali lost power again just after departing on March 26. It struck a bridge support, bringing down the Francis Scott Key Bridge within seconds and killing six roadway workers below.
NTSB INITIAL REPORT ON DALI COLLISION
A Federal investigation into the Baltimore bridge incident has found that the cargo ship MV Dali experienced blackouts about ten hours before it left port. Per the National Transportation Safety Board’s initial report, the first power outage… pic.twitter.com/i7ySE4xncn
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While a full investigation could take over a year, the NTSB aims to determine the chain of events to prevent similar disasters. Investigators have interviewed the crew and gathered data from the ship, which was headed to Sri Lanka when the tragedy occurred.
“Our mission is to determine why something happened, how it happened and to prevent it from recurring,” NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy stated after the disaster.
Dali experienced four blackouts before crashing into Baltimore Key Bridge, NTSB report shows https://t.co/CAMuPXdPIk via @wjz The ship never should have left port. It was obvious something was seriously wrong from the get-go.
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Ship that struck Baltimore bridge lost power twice before crash, NTSB preliminary report findshttps://t.co/CWkppYXHG8
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