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A portion of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has collapsed after a large boat collided with it early on Tuesday morning, sending multiple vehicles into the water.

At about 1.30am, a vessel crashed into the bridge, catching fire before sinking and causing multiple vehicles to fall into the water below, according to a video posted on X.

“All lanes closed both directions for incident on I-695 Key Bridge. Traffic is being detoured,” the Maryland Transportation Authority posted on X.

Matthew West, a petty officer first class for the coastguard in Baltimore, told the New York Times that the coastguard received a report of an impact at 1.27am ET. West said the Dali, a 948ft (29 metres) Singapore-flagged cargo ship, had hit the bridge, which is part of Interstate 695.

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[–] SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

There was a live-stream where you can scrub to the minute where the bridge is gone (1:28:43 by the time-stamp inside of the video, not the YT timestamp). The Ship apparently lost all the lights 2-3 times shortly before impact. Maybe it was a problem with that. We also noticed a lot of hacking activities in the last weeks. Maybe it was that.

[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Better to wait for more details to come out than to speculate wildly.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago

Idk I'm going with space lasers and you can't convince me otherwise.

[–] ashok36@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A guy at work showed me the footage on his phone. Whatever shit news site he was pulling from had the headline, "DEI focus by The transportation department under Pete buttigiege results in bridge collapse".

They didn't even wait half a day to start lying.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

Yeah, not everything bad that happens is intentional despite how much some people want that to be the case.

[–] CptEnder@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

FBI confirms not an act of terrorism rn

[–] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Here's a quick take on the crash. Informed and conspiracy free, based upon the video:

  • Ship power cut off and the pilot panicked and threw engines into reverse (as seen by engine exhaust)
  • 'Prop walk', which happen when you operate a propeller in reverse, turned the ship starboard into the bridge support

Some speculation in there about the state of mind of the pilot in trying to explain their actions. Hopefully the NTSB report will shed more light on things. The state of the steering particularly.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't look like it was lined up right to begin with.

[–] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

It was. Just a weird angle on the camera.

[–] AmbiguousProps 2 points 7 months ago

Wow, that was a wild shot of the collapse.