Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, MD, collapses after being struck by container ship

Partial collapse of Francis Scott Key Bridge after ship collision, rescue efforts underway.
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[@Sailor1010]

“Partial collapse”. It’s the whole damn thing!

[@barrybb5409]

Media pilpul.

[@samanthab1923]

Right? That was frightening

[@JustMe-xl7ju]

​​@@chuck7432Laughing at this? You are a piece of sh*t.

[@NM-Collection]

99.99% is still partial FYI

[@Lovetowandah]

😢😮, Leave it up to the STORYTELLER, HI STORY ..IT'S ALL FALL DOWN 😢😢😢

[@SmileToday-CryTomorrow]

Checking on a friend who is a night truck driver in Baltimore area. I pray he is safe.

[@BossTweed1]

I drive at nights myself and often worried about stuff like that going over it. My prayers for your friend. 🙏🏿

[@LollyCz450]

Prayers for your friend

[@chaos17945]

@@awesomusmaximus3766not true

[@josephr4761]

@@awesomusmaximus3766 There were several cars on the bridge. 20 people missing.

[@SmileToday-CryTomorrow]

Good News. He is safe and sound. His trucking company doesn't start until 3am. Thoughts and prayers to those involved.

[@Pedantic1953]

“Oh oh say can you see, that huge freakin’ boat heading right towards me”.

[@Emick1978]

Lord protect everyone involved

[@SeanzViewEnt]

sick sad and sinister

[@sonnylambert4893]

Lol sinister? Electrical failure on the ship. You are PROJECTING PARANOIA

[@sonnylambert4893]

You are projection. What’s sinister about electrical failure causing steering failure?

[@nicolaschaput338]

As time fly by, it becomes worst and worst, year after years...

[@volvo245]

C-c-collapse.

[@deannelson9565]

How do you figure this same sort of thing has always been a factor

[@James-mz7tv]

It's all perspective. In many, many ways it gets better and better. You're telling me the 40-year life expectancy of virtually every other century is better? However yes, some things are getting worse. There's a lot of fuckin humans in the world now, and people having irresponsible numbers of children every day, so in those ways it'll continue to worsen. But it'll get better in others. It's bad and it's good, better and it's worse, lol.

[@seraeirian2]

On average, it actually doesn't.

[@sylviaslydavis405]

Yup that's the crazy part

[@donovangomez8114]

Rescue those people!

[@andifisaytoyoutomorrow0]

Been across that thing in the 1980s and it gave me the creeps. High and steep pitch.

[@smilsmff]

I care for workers on that bridge who help keep it going. i hope they are ok

[@joestalin2375]

I hope they are not Sabotaging teams.

[@JohnnyBlair-d4c]

At this point just Pray for all those involved.

[@pohanahawaii]

🐖🐔🐂 I only hope this container ship didn't have any *live animals* on board (as they often do) 😔

[@yayie2235]

The ship carrying 2 billion worth of goods and now void. This is a very expensive accident.

[@sunnyrobinson2128]

🙏🏿 Prayers from Black America 🇺🇸

[@BayBye2011]

if the ship was using a harbor pilot unless it was electrical or some ship defect then the pilot is 100% responsible for control of the ship and he messed up big time

[@BuynLargeCorp]

I wonder what they will do with the rest of the bridge

[@smi2le4ever]

#infrastructure needs to be a bigger focus.

[@RavenousFallen]

The support pillar were really poorly lit. You can't even see them hardly in the original non enhanced video.

[@jojozep7820]

How horrifying, the whole thing collapsed like a house of cards. Was it on purpose? I pray everyone survives.

[@LollyCz450]

I hope not

[@aliensstolemybeer5362]

Something wrong with you, seek professional help.

[@damali-karlawhittaker6462]

😮😮😮 Who was the Captain? I just saw the footage. It does not look accidental to me.

[@kampfer3146]

Looks like the ship lost power moments before. This would definitely effect steering.

[@deannelson9565]

Why don't you explain us to us how this wasn't an accident cuz I'm guessing you're a complete expert in this subject! LOL

[@barbarahalkyard1901]

And your an expert are you.

[@deannelson9565]

@@barbarahalkyard1901 smart enough to know that ships like this are normally out of control

[@samanthab1923]

Capt wouldn’t have been at the helm. A harbor pilot would have.

[@laurabentzinger200]

Oh my hope the people are ok?🙏

[@RogelioYllarretaPadron-ri1gj]

Como fue esa colisión, no habían indicadores nocturnos ?

[@USASMR-o2c]

The way that bridge collapsed is suspicious. It was as if it was ready to go. Keep sending $$$ to Ukraine and Israel instead of fixing one infrastructure.

[@IrvinBennett-g9o]

What a shame !

[@leonhue722]

the captain should have dropped anchors when power was lost ?

[@upnorthoutdoors989]

"diversity"

[@brianedwards5792]

I'm surprised that the bridge still had its name, look up,the national anthem, like you never heard before, will tell you who Francis Scott key is, but the government will not allow the media to tell you

[@JudahA_Lion]

More BS

[@Ed5on]

Fossem brasileiros na direção deste navio não dizia nada

[@James-mz7tv]

NTSB are the best in the world. They'll get to the bottom of it.

[@jasonjohnson5804]

Classic mainstream media…can talk for ever saying the same thing!

[@anb7408]

A calm, clear night and the bridge is easily visible. The only excuse I’m buying is that the ship’s rudder failed AND they couldn’t turn the engines off. Otherwise, that’s looking very suspicious. Never mind each ship is supposed to have a harbor pilot on board, so this shouldn’t have happened.

[@AbbsOdell13666]

It was purposely done in my opinion.

[@tothemaxx1991]

They lost their engines and electrical power twice. There's a longer video.

[@tothemaxx1991]

​@@AbbsOdell13666 Your opinion is sickening.

[@tothemaxx1991]

​@@AbbsOdell13666You're horrible.

[@Raptoraddict6610]

This is what Trump's presidential campaign will look like by November....

[@SubFlow22]

Diverstiy hire.

[@Verifyourage]

Kids study hard otherwise you'll end up like this. Dont take the school bus either you'll regret it.

[@bebdaumon3948]

It reminds me of mothman prophecies. Did anyone see a mothman in the area?

[@lightbeing8174]

Maybe nobody spotted him but he could've been there.

[@jeffreyrichardson]

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[@orsisrutherford4705]

Mothman Putin was seen scaring people a few weeks before the disaster😢😢😢

[@Rahim1969]

I served 4 years in the US Navy, certified Master Helmsman who took an Aircraft carrier up the Mississippi River and through the Suez canal this is a failure on just about every level. I can only speculate but I cannot see the Pilot and Helmsman making that big of a mistake and if tugs were involved it is even worse. I think they had some sort of propulsion failure.

[@philspd473]

I was wondering about tugs but I have no knowledge whether they should or shouldn't have had.

[@sirboomsalot4902]

From what I’ve seen, none of the ships have tugs when they get to the bridge

[@brianlane9534]

total blackout... the port authority cameras picked it up... DGs kicked on but no maneuvering. They were dead in the water. Dropped the port hook when they lost maneuvering, but it didn't stop it. They were under way with no tugs.

[@Alwayscatlike]

I heard someone say there was a problem with propulsion....maybe a terrorist behind it because Democrats have let many of them in our southern border.

[@Rahim1969]

@brianlane9534 I thought I saw the anchor down. I wasn't sure cause how dark it was. Power loss makes a lot of sense, I only thought tugs cause they said in one of the reports the ship had just been turned, but no tugs makes sense even more now. I saw a lot of comments saying the pilot messed up but going in and out of port as much as I have Pilots are extremely familiar with the river just don't see them making that huge of an error. None of this makes it any less of a tragedy, but it explains so much as to why now. Thanks for the response and information.

[@kristiank.hasselberg1886]

So sorry to everyone involved in this

[@pit_stop77]

What a tragedy 😢 thoughts for the people on the bridge

[@MrRockrobstr]

Horrible horrible terrible awful news! Feeling awful for so many lives that are and will be affected by this for some time.

[@TitaniumTurbine]

I hate to say it, but once your car hits the water you’ve got about 5-10 minutes before the cabin completely floods. If you’re not able to break out by then, you’re in real trouble. For anyone reading this, I highly recommend keeping a window breaker somewhere around the driver’s seat.

[@beautifulsurprise9424]

I bought three of those damn things from Amazon for our cars and I can’t remember where I put them. This makes me feel like I need to find them today.

[@bryantcarson]

This is gonna have major ramifications on the city 4 years to come

[@Deltaaaaaaaaa]

It’s going to impact the entire DMV area greatly. Obviously the families of those involved first and foremost. But travelers this spring and summer from the Baltimore County area going to have to do some serious rerouting. That bridge is a huge deal here in MD.

[@gatormcklusky5850]

Ops

[@billyevans4929]

WTF happened? How could this ship hit the bridge in the first place? So scary to be driving on that bridge then all of a sudden you plunge into the water getting injured or killed, with your car wrecked as well. If this cargo ship had any foul play, I hope they get sued for the victims to get compensated. Absolutely horrible, God knows how long it'll take to rebuild this

[@sirboomsalot4902]

Apparently it seems like the cargo ship had a power failure

[@andanandan6061]

Modern ship this size to have only 1 power source for propulsion is disaster bound to happent. Beside main diesel engine, it must have secondary power source for propulsion either using power from generator or baterry pack.

[@billyevans4929]

@@sirboomsalot4902 I want to find out how and why? Unacceptable and should have never happened

[@sirboomsalot4902]

@@billyevans4929 We will, just wait until the investigation concludes

[@jamalchess7636]

I take this bridge everyday to work smh it’s shocking to see it gone

[@roberthenderson4466]

YOU ARE OUT OF WORK.

[@gabrielwong448]

I’m a ex marine radio officer who have had ship collisions experience in the US waters. This is a similar problem, that is collision due to bad vision. When you are navigating a big ship in such dark hours, the view is like almost total darkness and you can only rely on the radars to navigate. On the radar you can only see a straight bridge but not the bridge supports, hence that’s how the ship hit the bridge support by accident. The ship captain could have waited for morning daylight to set sail instead of leaving the port in the middle of the night.

[@asanwers]

It’s final destination 5 in real life

[@AntoinetteLatham-wk4tx]

Praying for everyone

[@Rick-qf5de]

Going down going down down ......

[@Mfdoorway]

2 things… this isn’t a matter of bad infrastructure. It’s a matter of 100k tons hitting a stationary object. Also the harbor pilot, captain, first officer, and everyone on the bridge of the ship should have stopped this (or at least done something to radio and warn them to stop traffic) Edit: this was posted literally as it happened so we didn’t know at the time they had for sure lost power

[@BatuSmoka808]

They didn't have time to warn anyone. They lost their engines right before they hit the pillar essentially.

[@Mfdoorway]

@@BatuSmoka808where is your source for that? Because unless you know something I don’t there’s no possible way to know yet

[@barbarahalkyard1901]

Thats why they hold inquiries. Because of people like you.Playing the guessing game.

[@dannyf4447]

How can people on the bridge stop a ship like this?

[@Mfdoorway]

@@dannyf4447Full reverse, move the rudder, change the azipod angle… any of them, or all Edit: i meant on the ship’s bridge

[@Sbxallday]

If you watch the actual video it appears the ship lost power right before the collision.

[@ywe3]

Remember 10000s of tons they probably cut the engine in an attempt to slow as a last resort...

[@Sbxallday]

@@ywe3 Could've been hacked. But I thought these ships were pulled and guided by a tug boat when they're in the harbor.

[@sirboomsalot4902]

@@ywe3You wouldn’t cut all the power to cut the engine

[@sirboomsalot4902]

@@SbxalldayYou can’t just hack a cargo ship

[@Sbxallday]

@sirboomsalot4902 That's false! Do a little research. They're saying on average 1 ship gets hacked per day.

[@crashman2062]

That harbor pilot is about to lose his license.

[@pull-my-finger-1]

THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A POWER FAILER

[@piccalillipit9211]

@@barev2056- Apparantly the bridge in the ship was on fire - they abandoned the bridge and then it hit the 'bridge" - wee need new words

[@ugiswrong]

Did he sanked

[@piccalillipit9211]

@@barev2056- The very first bit of video I saw - it [LOOKED] so obviously on fire that I thought it had crashed, stopped, caught fire and the FIRE had weakened the bridge and collapsed it As ive not seen it again, I might be wrong. But to my eyes it was very on fire. EDIT - it was not the good angle video thats everywhere now, it was a much worse video, I thin it was the BACK of the ship not the front

[@smudgey1kenobey]

@@pull-my-finger-1yes, there were two power outages in advance of collision

[@pixie_sparkle74]

The whole bridge is gone . Not partial . People are in the water people have died 😢. Anyone making jokes is just sick

[@RWBHere]

The ship lost all electrical power twice before hitting the bridge. It appears to fail a third time during the collision. This can be seen in the raw security camera video of the incident.

[@michaelrmurphy2734]

Baltimore is one of those American cities I want to go to. Because it IS a port! I grew up in a port city. In Canada. My father in his career worked on the waterfront. And he would have been dealing with Maersk all his working life. Things are in crisis mode in Copenhagen today, I'm sure. I hope the Pride of Baltimore is OK.

[@johnfish1194]

Sadly, all of those who plunged into the water are probably dead. The water is 48 degrees. Even if you didn't get knocked out by the fall, you don't survive in water temps like this for long. I hope they find some but...probably not.

[@seraeirian2]

Assuming they got out of said vehicles. Only takes 30s for water to fill a vehicle.

[@MeYou-vp7jb]

2 people that fell in were rescued as of now.

[@brizuhk5043]

@@MeYou-vp7jbwhere was it reported?

[@MeYou-vp7jb]

@@brizuhk5043 on the local news they reported it like two something in the morning

[@crescent_sun482]

I've swum in 37-38 degree water, so cold water doesn't instantly kill people, but it was in July and I wasn't in shock from falling from a damn bridge.

[@robertlong2531]

Technically it's partially of the widely used truss bridge construction, the truss sections usually being strong and structurally independent of each other . The long central section however was cantilevered, which from the video, looks to be why the bridge completely collapsed, rather than just the collapse of a single section.

[@jamesdellaneve9005]

The bridge pilings should have had groundwork’s to protect the bridgeworks. It fell like toothpicks.

[@Chuck-se5hh]

Wouldn't have helped.

[@jamesdellaneve9005]

@@Chuck-se5hh It could have. You see many bridges with tear dropped land works. That’s what they are for. They keep a ship 30 or more feet away from the structure.

[@TitaniumTurbine]

@@jamesdellaneve9005 This is what they did to protect the new Sunshine Skyway Bridge, after the previous one collapsed after the same kind of ship incident. I’m not shocked this bridge didn’t have groundwork as it seems like every state has to learn from tragedies for themselves.

[@jamesdellaneve9005]

@@TitaniumTurbine Yes. Of course, it costs money. Maryland is especially corrupt and inept at this point. If that’s the jurisdiction it’s in. All Baltimore city schools have zero percent of their African American kids performing at grade level at math. No emergency. They’ll get to it as soon as they protects the bridgeworks.

[@jamesdellaneve9005]

@@TitaniumTurbine As we say in Engineering, “Rev B”.

[@syedkazmi6487]

It is shocking to see the huge bridge collapsed in the river. Huge loss. Very sad

[@rgw5991]

its the perfect symbol of america. collapsing under its own stupidity.

[@Thomas-uv3tk]

I wonder why bridges don't have rubber bumpers surrounding their support beams like on boat docks. There are plenty of used tires at salvage yards.

[@Just_a_simple_aussie]

Some reason >??? If you showed the whole video the ship loses power 2 times before the accident ...... typical media ................

[@SteveJobIess]

Why did the ship lose power 2 time before the accident? Some reason.

[@RevistaDigital-li8zy]

Reefer containers? Bow and stern thrusters getting offline?

[@nealskelton1425]

I gotta wander how much experience the harbor pilot had.

[@barrybb5409]

Experience is racist. Better to hire an illiterate indian immigrant with no experience in bidens america, keeps wages lower than dirt and gives the big corporations a huge tax break.

[@MikeRthe1]

A ton, those guys are good, most likely a mechanical failure, we will find out.

[@samanthab1923]

@@MikeRthe1Think you’re right. Looked like power went out three times on the tape

[@pietrojenkins6901]

@@MikeRthe1 then if that is the case the ship should have been scrapped. That's not a sea worthy ship.

[@sirboomsalot4902]

@@pietrojenkins6901You don’t have to scrap a whole ship for electrical issues. If they kept up with the regular maintenance and replaced what needed to be replaced it would be fine. Unfortunately many shipping likes don’t do that and run their ships till stuff like this happens.

[@jgrant4736]

As the boat approached the bridge at the first power outage, tug boats should've been called to help navigate that ship under the bridge to safety. Maybe this step should be applied going forward, regardless of power outage or not

[@sqtoquickforu9429]

Is it a popular bridge like golden gate

[@fiverider]

God help everyone

[@miyal-shamar9130]

Something smells fishy

[@FoodWithShay]

Shame, I hope nobody lost their life from the cars on the bridge.

[@IndonesianBall123]

Made In America😂

[@oldtimer4888]

Baltimore drugs are the best.

[@Arslan10260]

money goes to Israel

[@nathantibbs4602]

Don’t forget Ukraine and Iran…

[@MerlynBean]

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[@ruggeddiscipline6026]

Judgment

[@tothemaxx1991]

Ship lost power multiple times. Seems like a severe electrical or mechanical failure.

[@brianlane9534]

Sheese. It is OBVIOUS the ship had a blackout just prior to it hitting the bridge. Now the news is dead set on having a body count. Keep up the good work.

[@DiorChanell_]

For “Some reason” Traffic was stopped Minutes before 😅For some reason this don’t add Up.

[@Satire_R_Us-km3rp]

I cross a large bridge nearly every day to go to work. Pretty scary stuff here. Prayers going out to everyone involved.

[@pixie_sparkle74]

Also it lost power 3 times before hitting definitely ship issues . I dont think this was intentional

[@sonnylambert4893]

Careful your a lone, rational, logical voice in this thread of paranoid, angry, half wits

[@user-q3cIy1mkx9]

Francis Scott Key is a very famous bridge and it is like collapsing of Twin Towers.

[@sirboomsalot4902]

That is *not* the comparison to be making here. I get what you mean, but also no.

[@SharkCatBroadcastingCompany]

I missed out on a Special Report because I was still sleeping but it was a shocking surprise

[@Sbxallday]

Joe Biden is that you 😂😂😂

[@SharkCatBroadcastingCompany]

@@Sbxallday no

[@Jim-u6c]

Tampa Bay SKYWAY Bridge has defensive dolphin concrete blockers,,,, the two on this Baltimore bridge are constructed in the WRONG positions for blocking the support legs

[@Marah493]

As search operations are on, X users have noted the uncanny resemblance the incident has to a 2023 Netflix film called Leave the World Behind, where a cyberattack causes a massive container ship to lose power & crash. A user wrote on X, “With the horrific collapse of the #KeyBridge in #Baltimore earlier, I couldn't help but be reminded of this scene from the film "Leave The World Behind", produced by the Obamas. A massive oil tanker runs ashore after a cyber attack shuts down navigation systems. Anyone else?”

[@horncanguiowillie867]

My nike flex hat is in a container ?

[@sonnylambert4893]

“ ship happens” folks. Mechanical, electrical failure and human error are paramount.

[@xa3558]

🙏🙏🙏

[@jarretheller2244]

This is some people's greatest nightmare. Ever been on the Chesapeake Bay Tunnel Bridge going into VA Beach? There are people who park in a park & ride and get a ride across because they simply can't go over, and under, that much water when they are behind the wheel.

[@jcsalerno8263]

Tragic. Now to investigate the situation, recover surviviors and hold those responsible accountable.

[@r2d372]

This will be rebuilt before the I195 George Washington bridge in Providence that’s been shut down since December.

[@susanlutz5062]

Like we care about the barge, he had plenty of room, what the hell was he doing, looks intentionally done

[@hm3drake35]

for what purpose?

[@ianmackinnon2546]

lmao

[@user-q3cIy1mkx9]

This is something that has never happened before. There is something wrong with this country.

[@tammyhurst2523]

Agreed!

[@sonnylambert4893]

Lol bridges collapse from ZERO collisions. Ships run into docks, reefs, other ships, bridge pylons, etc ALL THE TIME rage world over.

[@valtyger]

Korean made ship, only 15 years old HYUNDAI!

[@clintongwanyama7188]

My worst nightmare as someone that can’t swim

[@sharoncross5993]

Who you telling

[@nicoletrudell2065]

Swimming won't help if you're trapped in a vehicle, sadly

[@NomenClature-o8s]

Take swimming lessons.

[@闪白]

Bridge Constructor Portal

[@Sbxallday]

Build back better they told us.

[@MGRracing]

Actual footage from inside the ship: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oXaynJpsYquggJYfeature=shared

[@howardloewen1834]

Likely people died. I pray not.

[@paulhughes7366]

Which part isn’t collapsed

[@mc_sim]

Ramps?

[@mikemccoy7292]

Omg I was fortunate to be off of it in time.

[@Princesmilez]

Somebody job callin wondering how they getting to work smh 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@bertabickham7507]

WTF ..OMG ...😰

[@thomasbrinksr6551]

Exactly. How can that bridge come down just from that hit on the base that doesn’t make sense. That bridge was not well built