Baltimore Bridge Collapse Investigators Recover Cargo Ship’s ‘Black Box’

Investigators have secured the data recorder from the cargo ship that crashed into a bridge in Baltimore, triggering its collapse, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy said Wednesday.

Speaking in a CNN interview, Homendy said investigators had boarded the Dali vessel on Tuesday evening hours after it brought down the Francis Scott Key Bridge. “Right now we do have the data recorder, which is essentially the ‘black box,’” she said. “We’ve sent that back to our lab to evaluate and begin to develop a timeline of events that led up to the strike on the bridge, and we hope to have that information to share with the public later today.”

Homendy added that a team of 24 investigators were at the scene Wednesday. She said their focus is collecting “what would disappear once this is cleaned up.” Interviews will also be conducted throughout the day with people who were on board the ship, Homendy said. “We’ll also interview fire and rescue and people that were on the bridge as well.”

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