Conservative Girl

Yeah right. They look like they ate all the cookies and trying to hide it...
Strange we never see anything in the news now.
Anyhow, that female NTSB Manager was annoying - DEI hire?
https://www.usasupreme.com/ntsb-releases-black-box-timeline-of-baltimore-bridge-strike-and-things-are-even-more-suspicious-now/

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

Everything must be something else , dammit !!!!

NotMAGA Loc: Upstate NY - in a very red county

Black box data condensed:

"On Wednesday (3/28/2024), the National T***sportation Safety Board released an initial timeline of events in the tragic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which was struck by a container ship and destroyed early Tuesday. The agency has received an initial tranche of voyage data recorder (VDR) information from the U.S. Coast Guard and can now sketch out a rough outline of what t***spired aboard the vessel.

At about 0039 hours on Tuesday morning, the boxship Dali got under way from Baltimore's Seagirt Terminal with 21 Indian crewmembers, two local pilots and 56 hazmat containers on board. The pilots released the docking tugs shortly after, and the vessel entered the ship channel.

At 0124 hours, Dali was under way in the channel, making eight knots and steering 141 degrees. At about 0125, multiple alarms went off, and the VDR ceased recording the ship's electronic system data. Using backup power, the VDR kept recording bridge audio, and it captured the pilot's verbal rudder commands.

One minute later, at 0126, the VDR was able to resume recording the ship's electronic data. Shortly after - at 0126:39 - the pilot made a general VHF call for tug assistance. This was the first distress call from the vessel.

At about this time, a dispatcher at the pilot's association contacted the duty officer at the MDTA, the state authority that operates the Francis Scott Key Bridge. This gave the MDTA enough early warning to begin shutting down the bridge to traffic, an action that officials have credited with saving many lives.

At 0127:04, two minutes before contact with the bridge pier, the pilot gave the order to drop Dali's port anchor. He also gave additional steering commands.

At 0127:25, the pilot made a general radio call over VHF to warn that the Dali had lost all power and was approaching the Key Bridge. By this time, MDTA's duty officer had dispatched units to shut down all lanes of traffic.

The ship was still making seven knots at 0129:00, the moment that the VDR began recording the audible sounds of the allision. The noise continued until 01:29:33, and the pilot made a VHF call to report the bridge's collapse a few moments later. "


Some observations: One of the Dali's 2 "local" pilots made the first distress call about 1:26 but it was a land-based dispatcher who alerted the MDTA about the emergency in progress. The three minutes in between gave them time to get most vehicle traffic off the bridge and close it at both ends in case the worst happened.

Trying to quickly stop a ship of this size with that much weight aboard that's already moving is an impossibility. Imagine a runaway tractor trailer, fully loaded and heading down a steep, curvy road, that suddenly loses both brake line and steering cable.

The pilot could have tried to stop the ship by dropping anchor sooner, but didn't. Maybe interviews with him/her will shed more light on why not.

https://maritime-executive.com/article/ntsb-releases-vdr-timeline-of-baltimore-bridge-strike

Ricktloml

Very interesting. So, it appears Gestapo Joe/his true handlers, the C*******t Chinese Government are indeed focused on our infrastructure. And C*******t China has a willing/eager partner in Gestapo Joe. After all Gestapo Joe does need to pay-off all those influence peddling debts he and the International Biden Crime Family have run up during their decades of treasonously lining their pockets at the country's expense.

Sonny Magoo Loc: Where pot pie is boiled in a kettle

Everything IS something else.
You taught us that during the Vietnam War.
NOW it seems not to matter.