Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse-Terrible Accident or Something More?

Mar 29, 2024

Lots of folks seems to think the Baltimore Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse was an unfortunate accident. Maybe it was. But lets look at some facts before conceding this.

The distance between the 2 supports for the long span is 1,200 ft. Thats where the 150 ft wide ship was planning to pass through.

Ships travel in a designated shipping channel which is 800 ft wide. The ship was traveling on the left side of the channel before shit happened and within 3 minutes drifted onto the right side of channel and then out of the channel to hit the column and break the bridge

The boats traveling away from the lights in the background toward the bridge here

Here is another look at its path

https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/WuFbRbAn

Here are some numbers

Here is the NTSB timeline

1.24. Course 141 degree 8 kt,

1:24:59. Audible alarm. Sensor data stopped recording

1:26:02 sensor data recording restored

Steering orders recorded

1:26:39 tugs requested

1:27:04 order to drop port anchor given as well as steerage commands (no information on when anchors dropped)

1:27:25 Pilot reports loss of power and approaching bridge

1:29. Speed recorded at 7 kts

1.29-1.29:33 sounds consistent with collision heard

1:29.39 pilot reports bridge collapses

So something happened at 1.26 - 1.27 that caused the ship to change course, some combination of loss of power, steering and propulsion and drift and 3 minutes later it hit the bridge, which meant it ended up over 500 ft from where it intended to pass

This is a big ship. Over 3 football fields in length and weighing 100,000 tonnes traveling at 8 knots (9 mph). That means it has a lot of momentum to continue on its present course which is pointed somewhere in the middle of that 1,200ft opening

According to CNN as reported by John Leakes

The pilot of the ship did “everything that he could have done” to both slow the vessel down and keep it from drifting toward the bridge, according to Clay Diamond, executive director and general counsel of the American Pilots Association.
Diamond told CNN he has been in close communication with the Association of Maryland Pilots regarding what unfolded on the Dali cargo ship in the moments leading up to the crash.
“Just minutes before the bridge, there was a total blackout on the ship, meaning that the ship lost engine power and electrical power, it was a complete blackout,” Diamond said.
The pilot quickly gave a string of orders, calling for a hard rudder to port – as far left as possible – and for the anchor to be dropped.
The pilot was the one who contacted the pilot dispatch office to shut down traffic to the bridge, Diamond said.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240327102956/https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/03/26/us/baltimore-bridge-collapse-what-we-know

CNN removed the bolded section , hence I had to go back to the archives on the way back machine to verify.

If its true, and some say this is standard operating procedure, it appears to be a mistake. Slowing down allows more time to drift. That said I am no expert

In the absence of the above alleged actions could drift alone due to currents cause enough change in course?. For reference a 1 knot current 45 degrees to the ships trajectory would cause a 186 ft drift. I don’t know the current speed or direction, and according to this there was little or no wind.

But some reports say there was a 12 knot wind acting on the port side. Water is pretty calm and but the smoke suggests there may be some wind.

So I wont speculate otherwise. Wind or no wind drift is a possibility.

Update 3/30

I wanted to clarify the Wind situation

From NOAA, between 1:24-1:30 the wind was 3.5-4.28 knots at 35-36 degrees (from Northeast)

https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/met.html?id=8574728&bdate=20240326&edate=20240327&units=standard&timezone=LST/LDT&interval=6&action=data

The True Wind Calculator has a True Speed of almost 10 knots pushing against the Port side

But considering the time and the fact over 30 ft of the ship is submerged, probably not a big factor

end update

At the time of the collision, an ebb tide was also running, meaning that the current would have been flowing out of the harbor — the same direction the vessel was traveling…..[and] the collision occurred just one day past a full moon, when tidal current velocities are especially strong.

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/03/27/baltimore-bridge-collapse-ship-power-current/?outputType=amp

And they dropped the anchor, we think, which may have exacerbated the drift by slowing it down. But according to this they dropped the port (left side) anchor . That should have helped swing the ship *starboard* side, right? Of course, we don’t know that they got the anchor down before the crash, but if they did that could explain the rapid change in direction at the end

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/27/baltimore-bridge-ship-captain-electrical-failure-pilot/

*Edit-I incorrectly stated port side (left).

There could also have been some other factor like someone screwed up and turned right instead of left.

So lets just call it an accident. Because thats all we got at this point. Case closed, for now.

But wait a minute, too many people are too quick to want to write it off as an accident. Reminds me of COVID origins. Anyone contemplating lab origins was a CONSPIRACY theorist. The Media and the Experts all said so, and the alphabet agencies working for government can always be trusted. Right?

Whenever somebody gets killed the first thing you should ask is who gains. Cui Bono. Then look at means, opportunity and evidence of wrong doing. If after that is done and nothing found, call it an accident.

I don’t see many people doing that, including many who are quick to see conspiracy in other areas

So lets say someone wanted to distract people away from Israels Genocide, Moscow Terror Attacks which the US/Ukraine/Israel was implicated through ISIS, and hurt the economy temporarily before the election with another round of inflation blamed on supply disruptions. Thats Motive.

Only the BLOB could do such a thing. They would have the means and opportunity.

Some people call the BLOB the Elite, the Military intelligence Industrial Complex, the Enterprise, Deep State, WEF Globalists , etc. Its all of those things, hence the name BLOB

Why do we ignore the BLOB and latch onto a CIA version of Events (Coincidence Incompetence Accidents). Just because Experts say there is no evidence? If you don’t look you don’t find. Put your trust in Alphabet Agencies working for the BLOB? Because the MSM and corrupted $$$ social media influencers say so? Come on

Now it may very well be an improbable accident. I mean, what are the odds?. The ship has to lose power at just the right moment on a 28 day voyage to hit that bridge. Still, lightning does strike.

So lets say you wanted to arrange a large ship to crash into a bridge and collapse it and cause massive inconvenience and perhaps money to build a new bridge. And most importantly, you want to make it look like an accident. What would you need to do?

First, pick a bridge which was built to outdated standards and easily collapse. Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge was one of just 3% in the country (17,000) that are “fracture critical,” meaning if one portion sustained enough damage, the entire structure would collapse
Pick a nearby harbor to said bridge which does not require tugboats to pass through the bridge in case a ship loses power and navigation. Bingo.
Pick a time and place where the loss of power and navigation and following standard procedures would allow the container ship to drift and hit the bridge. This would require knowledge of local currents, winds, tides and how they affect large ships (I think the Navy or Coast Guard might have some people who could help with that)
Pick a ship that would be at that place and time and sabotage it during routine maintenance that would allow the power and navigation to be remotely turned off.

The cargo ship that lost power and crashed into a bridge in Baltimore underwent “routine engine maintenance” in port beforehand, the U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday

https://www.wkyt.com/2024/03/27/heroes-scrambled-stop-traffic-before-baltimore-bridge-collapsed-construction-crew-feared-dead/

Now someone might think thats a lot of work but consider that since CISA was set up in 2018 and even before within the DHS, planners have been brainstorming up ways a terrorist might attack infrastructure. Weaknesses have already been pinpointed. As we saw with COVID, these weaknesses are not always acted on and can be exploited in planning and carrying out such events.

You may decide for yourself. I am on the fence on this one.