BREAKING: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse. Mass Casualty Event

[BraddlesMcGee]

The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland which crosses the Patapsco River has reportedly Collapsed within the last few minutes after being Struck by a Large Container Ship; a Mass Casualty Incident has been Declared with over a Dozen Cars and many Individuals said to be in the Water.

Vision of collapse
https://twitter.com/sentdefender/sta...14015790477667

[Einsatzgruppen]

Ships captain was probably a diversity hire

[bfdehewdbyywhn]

female engineers

[ReppinHoes69]

[Rul3]

what in the f

[8pieces]

Holy ****

[EnochsProphecy]

london bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down. London bridge is falling down, my fair lady

[BraddlesMcGee]

Mainstream media are keeping us updated.

The bridge - now sitting at the bottom of the river - is closed to traffic.

[ReppinHoes69]

Its a big azz bridge

[8pieces]

Its a big azz bridge

Curious to how container ships are even allowed to go under that bridge. Aren’t they huge?

[uhohspaghetteos]

Like a nightmare

[bfdehewdbyywhn]

imagine being some wage slave factory worker or officecel comming back from a double shift at 3am in boston listening to 80s radio

then you plunge 100ft into cold water confused. and have less than 30 seconds to break the glass on your car window while your car tumbles upside down in pitch black darkness. and swim ashore through concrete and steel rubble. and geico gives you $0 for total coverage

[TokenV]

fuaark

surprised to see how it comes down as a whole, you'd think it'd break at the area of impact (?)

[thursdayParty1]

What sort of dumb phuck drives right into a bridge?

[Rul3]

if you post on twitter make sure you do what everyone else is doing and let everyone know it was a mass causality event just to be sure

[TokenV]

if you post on twitter

I'm not gay

[BraddlesMcGee]

This is the live cam that caught the collapse. You can see the ship coming and strike the left main pillar. Reports of power loss.

[LinuxJon]

Will turn out to be intentional or possibly terrorism.

[ReppinHoes69]

Curious to how container ships are even allowed to go under that bridge. Aren’t they huge?

Cargo and cruise ships pass under it regularly

[Rul3]

maybe they were filming speed 4 with Teanu deeves

[ReppinHoes69]

Mainstream media are keeping us updated.

The bridge - now sitting at the bottom of the river - is closed to traffic.

Lol MSM busy sleeping. This happened nearly 2 hours ago now and there's nothing on CNN or Fox

Lookner is covering it live

[elterrible987]

Its a big azz bridge

theres nothing protecting the columns. the momentum(energy) of a cargo ship is enormous. The columns cant take that type of force laterally. They make special piles that are to absorb the energy of a ship, sort of like those water barricades on roads.


This bridge, skyway bridge in florida, the original one was also destroyed by a large ship hitting it, so they made the new one with protection for the support columns:

[elterrible987]

Also for really tight harbors they have local "pilots" who will board large ships and take control of the vessel through that area, the pilots since they live in that area know the channels way better than the foreign captains.

idk if they used pilots here or not.


Finally it could always be a mechanical failure like a stuck open throttle that the pilot/captain was fuked and had no time to recover from

[RayBoccini]

brutal

[superfunk]

This is the live cam that caught the collapse. You can see the ship coming and strike the left main pillar. Reports of power loss.

Looking at that there didn't appear to be any vehicles on the bridge when it collapsed, thankfully.

[aranadiscoteca]

Pics of captain

Spoiler!

[foXs]

Love the Reuters headline…

“Part of the bridge collapsed”

Umm, not sure if it’s just a part of the bridge, sweetheart.

[RIKTER]

Hopefully this means no more Silly...

[baldbrah]

Fishing gone be good with all that free chum.

[fate0311]

It looks like the ship had a power loss and maybe lost thrust? If he lost thrust it would increase turning radius. Also they for sure cut traffic off from the bridge before the collapse. Obvious with the sudden stop of traffic.

It looks like oscillating power on/off and you can see the thick smoke from the ship's stack when it regains power periodically as they are trying to generate large thrust to sharpen the turning radius. Looks like also poor judgement when they regained power they should have opened up the turn and went around that column instead of trying to hairpin that turn to the inside.