Baltimore bridge collapse: hopes fade for survivors as data recorder recovered from crashed ship Dali
- A coastguard official said there was no hope of finding the six missing workers alive in the frigid water
- The Singapore-flagged cargo ship crippled by a power loss rammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland on Tuesday
US federal safety investigators recovered the black box from the freight ship that crashed into a Baltimore bridge, the agency chief said on Wednesday, as rescuers looked for the remains of six workers missing in the bridge collapse.
A highway team also will be looking at the twisted remains of the Francis Scott Key Bridge as they try to determine how and why a container ship smashed into a pillar of the 2.6km (1.6 mile) span in early morning darkness on Tuesday.
Investigators from the US National Transportation Safety Board recovered the data recorder after boarding the ship late on Tuesday, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said. They will interview the ship’s crew, she said.
The disaster forced the indefinite closure of the Port of Baltimore, one of the busiest on the US eastern seaboard, and created a traffic quagmire for Baltimore and the surrounding region.
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US bridge collapses in Baltimore after ship collision, leaving several people missing
Rescuers pulled two construction workers from the water alive on Tuesday. One was hospitalised. The six presumed to have perished included immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador, said the Mexican consulate in Washington.
