US divers recover data recorder from crashed Dali ship as first details of Baltimore bridge collapse victims emerge

US federal safety investigators have recovered the black box from the freight ship that crashed into a Baltimore bridge, the agency chief says as rescuers search for the remains of six construction workers lost in the bridge collapse. A highway team will also be looking at the twisted remains of the Francis Scott Key bridge as they try to determine how and why the Dali container ship smashed into a pillar of the 2.6km span in the early morning darkness on Tuesday.

Tragic aftermath following Baltimore’s bridge collapse 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 and other survivors, 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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