Watch live: News conference on Baltimore’s Key Bridge collapse

Baltimore Sun ^ | 3/26/24 | Baltimore Sun

[hardspunned]

Team Baltimore, Team Maryland, FBI investigating, Buttiboy coming to the rescue.

[hardspunned]

I missed the first part. What happened? How did it happen? I guess they’ll investigate. What does the pilot/captain say? I didn’t see that.

[hardspunned]

Forget it, conference just ended. “They’re investigation”

Please delete.

[chuckee]

I can understand an equipment failure or act of terrorism. Barring that, all else is on the captain as this is an accident that should never have happened.

[Titus-Maximus]

Was the ship hacked? How could they lose control?

There were harbor pilots on board.

[canuck_conservative]

“The ship that caused the Baltimore bridge collapse also crashed in a European port in 2016”

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/ship-caused-baltimore-bridge-collapse-130320339.html

[Reno89519]

The shipped declared may-day, gave warning of problems. That apparently saved lives.

[hardspunned]

What’s going on with shipping, a great industry site, has released this video. This guy knows what he’s talking about and is well worth following as this plays out.

https://youtu.be/qZbUXewlQDk?si=iPzjWm4_1UiMK-dm

[gloryblaze]

Thanks. Great link!

[dfwgator]

CYA Time.

[DeplorablePaul]

I hate that politicians flock to the cameras and endlessly thank and praise federal, state and local government officials. These news conference are just an info commercial for big government. Your tax dollars at work.

[hardspunned]

The guy is great. The best source for Red Sea updates by far.

[ridesthemiles]

EVERY USA port has “Pilots’ who steer ships INTO & OUT of harbors.

[Migraine]

You’re right. No one is the wiser after the presser in these affairs.

Philadelphia transportation commissioner after a train went off the rails with much damage and injury and death:

“We have a preliminary indication;
But there’s an ongoing investigation.
So we won’t comment on the situation
Until we have further information.”

That was the classic in this genre for me. Surprising that no rapper has picked it up. It would go platinum for sure.

[smokingfrog]

You will learn more watching him for 3 minutes than from watching the major network talking heads for an hour.

[Toespi]

Wonder if the ship had lost power anytime between leaving its berth and the two just prior to the crash.

[JohnBovenmyer]

The little I saw was a bunch of no nothing Rat politicians (The Gov, a Senator, etc.) saying nothing useful but emoting loudly how horrible it was and talking up every government employee who had anything conceivable to do with the response. It was like an Oscar speech where the winner didn't want to leave out pandering to anyone who might vote for their next Oscar.

With luck they'll have a couple newsworthy dramatic escapes to spin against the otherwise rotten news. Realistically there is a fairly short window during which those who fell into the water haven't yet drowned during which time rescue is possible. And perhaps there could be some rescuable folks entangled in bridge debris which are still above water. Anyone alive and underwater after the fall better save themselves, because the chance they'd be spotted amongst this much mess in time for rescue is minimal. Anyone still 'missing' now is either dead or was listed by mistake–wasn't actually there when it happened. Some may not be found until they clear the bridge debris from the shipping channel.

Tow and secure the ship somewhere safe and start gathering the equipment and staff needed to clear the channel is about all that can be done today. Clearing that channel and reopening the port ASAP is the only short term good news they can produce. I wonder whether any resources useful for that might already be en rout to Gaza, but that's probably Schadenfreude too far.

[mewzilla]

IIRC, the NTSB will be having a presser at 2:30 PM local.

FWIW.