The NTSB will comb through a voyage-data recorder in an attempt to recreate a timeline of Tuesday's cargo-ship crash, officials say
Search and recovery operations at the Baltimore bridge collapse site were halted overnight due to dangerous conditions, Baltimore City fire chief saidinvestigators are combing on Wednesday through a voyage-data recorder in an attempt to recreate a timeline of Tuesday's cargo-ship crash that caused aof the span and halting vessel traffic into and out of the Port of Baltimore, Jennifer Homendy, NTSB chairwoman, said Tuesday.
NTSB investigators, who are leading the investigation, arrived at the bridge scene at 6 a.m. on Tuesday. Twenty-four NTSB staffers were on site, including several specialising in nautical operations, human performance and engineering, Homendy said Tuesday. "We still have information that we have to uncover," he said, "The thing that we do know though is that with a ship of that size, moving at that kind of clip, it was going to be difficult for that type of bridge to be able to sustain."
He said investigators would do everything they could to give those families peace as the search turns to a recovery mission."We want to let them know we will use all resources to bring them a sense of closure and peace," he said on "GMA."The force with which a cargo ship hit Baltimore's Key Bridge on Tuesday was "just unimaginable," Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Wednesday.
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