WASHINGTON – The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday determined that the catastrophic Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore last year was caused by a single loose wire that caused a container ship to lose power and crash into the bridge.
Until the release of the voluminous NTSB findings, it was not clear what caused the ship, the 984-foot-long Dali, to suffer two power outages just before the accident.
“Locating a single wire that is loose among thousands of wires is like looking for a loose bolt in the Eiffel Tower,” NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy said.
The NTSB’s findings followed a 20-month-long investigation into the March 26, 2024, bridge collapse, which killed six highway maintenance workers on the span and closed the Port of Baltimore for three months…