‘The bridge is down’: Recording emerges of response to Baltimore ship crash

The cargo ship Dali and the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. Photograph: Erin Schaff/New York TimesDetails have emerged from emergency radio recordings of the moments authorities were alerted that the cargo ship that knocked down a highway bridge into Baltimore Harbour was drifting out of control.

A newly released audio recording has captured dispatchers responding as the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, collapsed. Maryland state police colonel Roland Butler said a red pickup truck containing the bodies of the two men was found in about 7.62m of water near the midsection of the fallen bridge.

Four more workers who were part of a crew filling potholes on the bridge’s road surface remained missing and presumed dead. The six also included immigrants from Honduras and El Salvador, officials said.The economic fallout from the incident could be staggering. The port handles more automobile and farm equipment freight than any other in the country, as well as container freight and bulk goods ranging from sugar to coal.

Earlier on Wednesday an NTSB team boarded the idled freighter, still anchored in the harbour channel with part of the mangled bridge splayed over its bow, to begin interviewing the ship’s two pilots and 21 regular crew members who remained on the vessel, safety board chief Jennifer Homendy said. Mr Homendy said recorder data was “consistent with a power outage” but that an actual blackout had yet to be confirmed.

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