2024-03-28 06:44:54
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced on the 27th (local time) that the investigation into the Baltimore bridge collapse could take two years. The explanation is that recovery is urgent as the bridge collapse blocked the waterway and prevented important shipping routes from functioning properly, but the investigation into the ship’s malfunction and why it collided is not simple.
According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendi said she interviewed the captain, first mate, chief engineer and others in connection with the pier collapse following the collision of the Singapore vessel Dali. He also said he recovered the cargo manifest as well as a voyage data recording device equivalent to the aircraft’s black box. Chairman Homendi said, “It is a huge amount to investigate,” and “it could take one to two years.”
NTSB investigator Marcel Muise said the only data on the recorder were sensors from the bridge, such as GPS data, audio from the bridge and rotor commands. Other items, such as the temperature of each of the ship’s cylinders and information from power distribution sensors, are not stored in the voyage data recorder, he said.
Given the limited nature of the data recovered so far, it is too early to tell whether the NTSB can determine why the vessel malfunctioned, Homendi said.
The accident occurred around 1:30 a.m. the previous day when the Dali collided with a pillar of the Scott K Bridge, the longest bridge in Baltimore. Afterwards, part of the bridge collapsed in 20 seconds, and six people working on the bridge drowned and died. The bodies of two of them were recovered, and they were found inside a red pickup truck submerged 7.6 meters deep in water near the middle of the bridge.
The identities of these two people were known as Alejandro Fuentes (35), a Mexican immigrant living in Baltimore, and Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera (26), a Guatemalan immigrant living in Dundalk, Maryland.
Six workers were working to fill potholes in the bridge. Authorities are contacting the families of the six people who died in the accident, who officials said were immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. According to the Baltimore Fire Department, several vehicles were on the bridge at the time of the collapse. Using sonar and infrared technology, authorities said the vehicle was likely trapped under concrete and debris beneath the water.
(Seoul = News 1)
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