[News] Baltimore Key Bridge

[dazzer6666]

Blimey.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-68663071

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Dreadful. Such a simple mistake and those poor people driving across the bridge has no chance.

 

[el punal]

Blimey.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-68663071

You can’t park there, sir.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

The Maryland Transport Authority confirms that all lanes have been closed in both directions due to an "incident" on the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the US city of Baltimore.

No shit, mate.

 

[A1X]

Thank goodness it happened in the middle of the night

 

[Bozza]

It was briefly mentioned on 5Live whilst I was out in the car just now. It didn't sound as serious as it clearly is. Dreadful.

 

[Hendrax]

Thank goodness it happened in the middle of the night

Absolutely. Still reports of many vehicles in the water though. Pretty grim to plummet into freezing cold water in the dark.

 

[drew]

Could have been desperately more tragic if during the day.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Thank goodness it happened in the middle of the night

agreed. I guess it would be less likely to happen in daylight though.

God knows what the skipper / pilot was doing. When i heard the reports, I’d pictured a ship accidentally clipping a support, and a domino effect bring the bridge down. The reality is plain weird - it just ploughs straight into the support as if nobody was actually paying any attention at all

 

[beorhthelm]

from slowmo footage looks like fortunatly no traffic at the time, a lorry and couple of car cross a minute before. unfortunatly some service engineers were there.

 

[pasty]

Maybe just perspective of the clip, but the ship looks too big to get under it anyway to me?

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

agreed. I guess it would be less likely to happen in daylight though.

God knows what the skipper / pilot was doing. When i heard the reports, I’d pictured a ship accidentally clipping a support, and a domino effect bring the bridge down. The reality is plain weird - it just ploughs straight into the support as if nobody was actually paying any attention at all

Could have been some catastrophic loss of power/control of the ship. In that case the pilot/captain would have just been a passenger unable to do anything at all.

from slowmo footage looks like fortunatly no traffic at the time, a lorry and couple of car cross a minute before. unfortunatly some service engineers were there.

Reports of several vehicles in the water according to various news outlets.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

BBC said that there were two pilots on board

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

BBC news presenter is asking an expert the questions a three year old would ask. Why? But why? Why?

 

[GT49er]

agreed. I guess it would be less likely to happen in daylight though.

God knows what the skipper / pilot was doing. When i heard the reports, I’d pictured a ship accidentally clipping a support, and a domino effect bring the bridge down. The reality is plain weird - it just ploughs straight into the support as if nobody was actually paying any attention at all

From the BBC:

"Its speed steadily increased and it maintained a straight route south east along the Patapsco River.
Then at 01:25 MarineTraffic data shows that the ship suddenly diverted from its straight course and began to slow down.
Around this time, video shows that all lights on the exterior of the ship suddenly turned off and smoke began emanating smoke from the ship's funnel."

Sounds like possibly a serious ship malfunction?

 

[Guinness Boy]

From the BBC:

"Its speed steadily increased and it maintained a straight route south east along the Patapsco River.
Then at 01:25 MarineTraffic data shows that the ship suddenly diverted from its straight course and began to slow down.
Around this time, video shows that all lights on the exterior of the ship suddenly turned off and smoke began emanating smoke from the ship's funnel."

Sounds like possibly a serious ship malfunction?

People on Twitter saying that at real speed, rather than the speeded up footage on the likes of the BBC it looks like a total power loss, possibly twice.

Then again, some on Twitter are also saying it's terrorism, which seems very unlikely with two pilots on board and the bridge at it's quietest, but you get all sorts on that platform.

 

[Bozza]

From the BBC:

"Its speed steadily increased and it maintained a straight route south east along the Patapsco River.
Then at 01:25 MarineTraffic data shows that the ship suddenly diverted from its straight course and began to slow down.
Around this time, video shows that all lights on the exterior of the ship suddenly turned off and smoke began emanating smoke from the ship's funnel."

Sounds like possibly a serious ship malfunction?

I've got Sky News playing in the background. Some sort of expert they were interviewing just now suggested the ship's engines were essentially on full reverse which he described as an attempted "emergency stop".

 

[GT49er]

People on Twitter saying that at real speed, rather than the speeded up footage on the likes of the BBC it looks like a total power loss, possibly twice.

Serious ship malfunction then

Then again, some on Twitter are also saying it's terrorism, which seems very unlikely with two pilots on board and the bridge at it's quietest, but you get all sorts on that platform.

Smoke from the chimney - and looking at the clip on the BBC, the ship seems pretty engulfed in black smoke - so could have been an explosion which could have been caused by terrorists - but to time an explosion at precisely the moment to cause the collision with the bridge? Pushing it a bit, I'd have thought.

Still, I do half expect Trump to be along in a minute to tell us who did it - Mexican terrorists perhaps, so he'll have a mandate for his wall?

 

[Oh_aye]

BBC said that there were two pilots on board

There's the problem then. They should have used sailors.

(Sorry)

 

[Milano]

When the 9/11 news first broke it was "a small plane has hit the WTC" it was a good few minutes later before it started to become a 'bigger' thing. The media has changed massively since then.
I really hope that this isn't terror related.
Thoughts go to all involved.