Francis Scott Key Bridge collapses in Baltimore after ship strike

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Maryland to get insurance payout from Key Bridge collapse​

Jul 25, 2024

Maryland to get insurance payout from Key Bridge collapse

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So does this mean the US gov doesn't have to cough up the money now?

LIVE: NTSB updates on Baltimore bridge collapse​

Streamed live 2 hours ago #ntsb #baltimore #news

Watch live as the National Transportation Safety Board provides an update on the collision of the cargo vessel Dali with the Francis Scott Key Bridge and its subsequent collapse in Baltimore, Maryland in 2024.

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5 Philly-area bridges should be evaluated for collapse risk, says NTSB​

Almost a year after the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed as a container ship slammed into it, the National Transportation Safety Board is urging the owners of 68 major bridges in 19 states to assess their vulnerability to such a disaster — including five in the Philadelphia region.

Among them: the Delaware River Turnpike Bridge linking the New Jersey and Pennsylvania toll roads, built in 1956. It is classified as essential to the transportation network and is owned by the two states’ turnpike authorities.

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Key Bridge Rebuild/MV Dali Back Is Back/URGENT NTSB Warning​

Jeff Ostroff continues the analysis and investigation into the Motor Vessel Dali collision with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, MD on March 26, 2024, with updates now that Dali is back in action after repairs. Also, the new Francis Scott Key Bridge redesign is in full swing and the design will be analyzed. The NTSB also held an urgent press conference this week to warn of 68 major bridges that might be at risk of collapse after collision with a ship. NTSB also implicated the Maryland Department of Transportation in failing to run a risk assessment analysis on the Key Bridge, and they might have seen that the bridge failed the criteria by 30x.

00:00 Introduction to MV Dali Status, Key bridge Rebuild
01:30 Recap of MV Dali and Baltimore Bridge Collapse Francis Scott Key Bridge
02:54 September 2024 MV Dali heads to China for repairs
04:25 MV Dali begins sea trials in January 2025 after repairs
05:54 NTSB Blames Maryland, Others for not risk assessment per ASHTO specs
08:17 MDTA failed to risk assess Key Bridge and Bay Bridge
10:00 What the ASHTO specs require of bridge builders for risk assessment
13:32 URGENT NTSB Observations and Recommendations from Key Bridge Collapse
17:03 How NTSB says Key Bridge was 30x riskier than ASHTO specs
20:26 Chart on how large container ships have grown in the last 40 years
22:28 NTSB list of 58 high-profile bridges at risk of collapse
26:18 Francis Scott Key Rebuild images, schematics, review
28:06 Progressive Design accelerated bridge design
30:52 Schematic for new Key Bridge overlayed on old Key bridge
33:10 February 2025 update of new Key Bridge pre-construction work
33:58 By the numbers, comparing old Key Bridge to New Key Bridge
35:33 Design problems with the new Francis Scott Key Bridge

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What Happened on the Bridge of the Dali during the Four Minutes After They Lost Power?​

Jun 3, 2025 #dali #baltimorebridge #balitmore
In this episode, Sal Mercogliano — a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner — discusses the release by the NTSB of the Vessel Data Recording of the bridge conversation on board the containership MV Dali during the four minutes from when the ship lost power until it hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26, 2024.

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00:00 Background
03:23 Pre-Departure Events
05:43 The Four Minutes on the Bridge
22:05 The Moment of Impact
23:38 Post-Impact Discussions on the Bridge
26:22 Conclusion

- Marine Traffic marinetraffic.com
- NTSB Contact of Containership Dali with Francis Scott Key Bridge and Subsequent Bridge Collapse https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/P...
- VOYAGE DATA RECORDER - AUDIO - GROUP CHAIRMAN'S FACTUAL REPORT https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document...

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- Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse • Full video | Francis Scott Key bridge coll...

Process, over results.

Ask any government lifer about how they're doing on any given project (most of them mired or stalled). You'll hear of meetings, studies, white-papers, public hearings, votes scheduled, applications for "money" from higher-up, and requests for moar public (or business, or school-children's) support.

You do NOT hear of ACTUAL PROGRESS.

Remember Donald Trump's pinnacle - when he ceased being just another oily developer, and became the young Can-Do expert? The Madison Square Garden ice-rink renovation was stalled in New York permamuck. Trump took the project over, using resources already allocated, and taking no salary - and had it done in short order.

But Trump is now an old man, and his putting results before process, was an old viewpoint even when he was young. Today, it's ALL...ABOUT...MOTION. Not action; MOTION. Marching in circles.

Should it even be rebuilt?

It's there to get trucks in and out of the port - and workers into and out of there.

Since Baltimoor is a Progressive city, with people of Diverse hue, few of them work. And I don't see any advantage to providing cheaper transport of already-indescribably-cheap, slave-made, inferior Chin crap.

And we all know the gubbermint 'groids can't take care of complex things like bridges. Ain't got no time for DAT. So...I'd say, no, just leave it there, like the ruins of Acropolis. We once were SOMEBODY.

Casey Jones said:

It's there to get trucks in and out of the port - and workers into and out of there.

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Upon looking at a map of the area, the port looks to be better served by I-95

If driving North or South through the area, the route to where the bridge was, looks to be just as far as driving West around the Bay.


My vote? Just don't rebuild it. Save the $$$ instead.

Joe King said:

Upon looking at a map of the area, the port looks to be better served by I-95

If driving North or South through the area, the route to where the bridge was, looks to be just as far as driving West around the Bay.


My vote? Just don't rebuild it. Save the $$$ instead.

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Gubbermint SAVE MONEY? That's a hoot.

My own vote? Let them decide. AND PAY FOR IT. Let the Fudds tell the State, no. Let the state tell the county, no. Let the city and Port Authority come up with the grift, I mean, construction expenses.

...probably one or the other of those two routes, was a truck/HazMat route, and the other, not. So pampered government workers and other commuters could avoid all those nastybad trucks, and just go the way that was not a truck route. The bridge, probably.

I remember the agonizing about how the port would be barely accessible because of the collapse. Somehow we're not hearing that, anymore. Just Grrl-Powah reporterettes reporting without facts?

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I remember the agonizing about how the port would be barely accessible because of the collapse. Somehow we're not hearing that, anymore. Just Grrl-Powah reporterettes reporting without facts?

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I think that was about ships not being able to reach the port because of the bridge blocking the channel.

Deadly China Bridge Collapse​

In this video, I discuss the what is known and suspected about the causes of a deadly bridge collapse that occurred in the early morning hours of August 22, 2025 during construction of the world's largest double track railroad continuous truss bridge span. The bridge is located is Qinghai China over the Yellow River.
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Why did it happen?....does it keep happening?

The answer is as close as your nearest new refrigerator, air-conditioner, other home appliance, or - I suspect - Stellantis car or truck, Zoom-engineered by contract personnel from sources not identified.

Anyone who has had experience with a sophisticated Chinese product, knows this. For me, it was a new Chinese motorcycle - a Xingyue, a clone of a discontinued Suzuki model. With a Yamaha-clone engine.

Sounds good, right? Rode good, too. For 2600 miles, then the engine's guts came apart. In this case, the timing chain and camshaft gear. How much farther it would have gone if those hadn't given out, I don't know.

Xingyue sold quite a few clones of various models under the Tank name (American importer) and another. Mine was the company's attempt to start a dealer network under its own name.

You don't see Tanks or Xingyues anymore...even though the Suzuki models they were based on, still appear online, used. You can clone a good engine, but if you use pot metal when the engine specs call for hardened carbon steel, you are gonna have a throwaway product. And an angry customer base.

This is not just my experience, either. A company called CSC Motorcycles (formerly, California Scooter) had a Chinese 250cc "Adventure" model (that's a genre that includes the V-Strom and the BMW GS series) already selling in the Third World....had it styled and branded and emissions-tested and imported - sold for $2999. That's cheap for the class.

And cheap is what it was. Frames were cracking in moderate, fire-trail-type use. That's not considered hard use - it's what they're designed for.

The same carries everywhere, to everything that's engineered by China, Limited. Why? I think it's the underlying political precepts that the government asserts. Capitalism is evil. But we need capitalism, to make money to fund our armies and our public works. So...let's do like the capitalists, and FRAUD THE BUYERS.

And with the money...they have political officers overseeing every decision. Do it cheap, and do it fast - to meet the demands of the current Five-Year Plan. It WILL be finished, or, Comrade Design Leader, you will be tried as an Enemy Of The People!

So this kind of shoddy crap, with mistakes that a first-year engineering student wouldn't make...shoddy straight-line dams that wedge against nothing, are not anchored...just a straight wall across, as the Party Leaders demanded...those are built, and fall apart, and fail, and kill millions of less-important non-Party persons.

Excellence, there, is not rewarded - it's punished.

Key Bridge costs could far exceed nearly $2 billion estimate, Duffy says​

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy questioned Maryland’s nearly $2 billion budget for rebuilding the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, following comments made by President Donald Trump this week that put federal funding for the project in doubt.

Duffy said Wednesday that he expected the final bill to be more than double Maryland’s original estimated total to replace the bridge that collapsed in March 2024 after a freighter collided with one of its pillars. Shortly after the collapse that killed six people, Maryland officials said a new bridge would cost between $1.7 billion and $1.9 billion to build.

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Of course.

Meetings and plans, and examination of DEI Compliance of contractors, and press offices, and environmental-impact studies...that all takes $MONEY$.

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Key Bridge costs could far exceed nearly $2 billion estimate, Duffy says​

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy questioned Maryland’s nearly $2 billion budget for rebuilding the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, following comments made by President Donald Trump this week that put federal funding for the project in doubt.

Duffy said Wednesday that he expected the final bill to be more than double Maryland’s original estimated total to replace the bridge that collapsed in March 2024 after a freighter collided with one of its pillars. Shortly after the collapse that killed six people, Maryland officials said a new bridge would cost between $1.7 billion and $1.9 billion to build.

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China could build that bridge in a few months....

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China could build that bridge in a few months....

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The original estimate was for about 400 million when it was just the insurance companies on the hook. Now it is almost 10 times that amount when the fed gov gets involved. Elections coming up and lots of contributions need to be made.

NTSB Animation - Containership Dali Contact with Francis Scott Key Bridge​

Nov 18, 2025
This animation depicts the method of connecting electrical wires using terminal blocks on the Dali. The first image shows photographs of electrical control panels on the Dali. The next image shows a photograph of wires connected through terminal blocks; each wire has a numerical label that matches the numerical label on the terminal block where it is inserted. The photograph shows terminal blocks 362 through 389.
A close-up view of the end of a wire shows that it is terminated with a metal sleeve called a ferrule; the wire also has a labeling band wrapped around the insulation with the number 382 on it. Text on the screen identifies the ferrule and the labeling band.
An image shows four terminal blocks arranged side by side with wires inserted into the connecting ports; the terminal blocks and wires have labels 381 through 384. The terminal blocks are rotated to zoom in on one connecting port, focusing on the spring clip and the internal conductor bar; the image is identified in text as a cut-away view of the mechanism. A tool is inserted down into a side port adjacent to the connecting port, which pushes the spring clip open and allows a ferrule to be inserted down into the connecting port. The tool is removed, and the spring clip closes, holding the ferrule firmly against the conductor bar.
An image compares two wire ends. On the first wire end, the labeling band with number 382 is placed on the insulation away from the ferrule. On the second wire end, the labeling band with number 381 is placed on the ferrule, increasing the diameter. Text on the screen indicates the labeling band positions.
The cut-away view of the mechanism is shown again. The tool is inserted and the spring clamp opened. A wire with a labeling band with number 381 on the ferrule is inserted but the larger diameter caused by the labeling band prevents the ferrule from being inserted fully. When the tool is removed and the spring clip closes, only the tip of the ferrule is held. The tip of the ferrule is shown slipping up out of the spring clip (which closes) and then down to rest atop the spring clip face. The ferrule then moves up a small amount to create a gap that prevents conduction of the electrical signal.

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Chief Engineer Discusses the Four Causes for the Dali Crash in Baltimore | NTSB Release Their Report​

In this episode, Sal Mercogliano — a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner — brings Steam Man (an American Chief Engineer) on board to discuss the findings of the National Transportation Safety Board regarding the Dali crash in Baltimore on March 26, 2024.