FBI(FBI) said on the 15th that it has officially opened a federal criminal investigation into the fatal collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge (Francis Scott Key Bridge) last month, when a cargo ship collided with a support tower, this The talk focused on whether the crew knew there was a problem with the system.
An FBI spokesperson said that FBI personnel have boarded the Dali cargo ship that struck the bridge and have launched a court-mandated law enforcement operation throughout the bridge collision incident, with no other public information available at this time;
This incident happened on the morning of 26 March. The giant container ship Dali lost power and collided with a support tower, causing the bridge to collapse and fall into the Patapsco River, killing six people working on the bridge at the time and losing their lives.
The “Washington Post” reported that the current focus of the entire accident investigation is on whether the crew of the “Dali” cargo ship left the port knowing that there were serious problems in the system.
Security investigators found a “black box” recorder on the container ship, which contained vital data related to the ship’s position, speed, direction, radar, bridge audio and radio communications and alarms.
The head of the US National Transportation Safety Board told Congress separately last week that officials had spoken to key cargo ship workers.
As of now, work such as clearing debris and restoring port and channel traffic is still ongoing.
Work to replace the bridge could take several years, and officials are currently opening two temporary passageways to allow some shallow water vessels to go around the damaged container ship. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said two weeks ago that it expected the bridge to open by the end of April, opening a new channel into the Port of Baltimore.
At the time of the accident, Daly was leaving for Baltimore.Sri LankaColombo, there were 21 crew members on board and two pilots who piloted the ship out of the port.
The ship has crashed before, hitting a pier in 2016 as it was leaving the North Sea container terminal in the Belgian port of Antwerp.
Additionally, data from ship information website Equasys shows that the container ship involved in the accident was inspected in San Antonio, Chile in June 2023 and was found to have propulsion and auxiliary machinery defects.
According toSingaporeThe Maritime and Port Authority said the ship had passed foreign port inspections in June and September last year.
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