Baltimore: Kare frame the collapse of the bridge after the impact of the ship – “As if it earthquaked”

In shock it remains the after its collapse, when a ship with thousands of containers fell upon one of its pillars. Residents in Baltimore saw the bridge collapse like a paper tower, while the ship was approaching the pillar, on the bridge was a maintenance crew. A Greek resident in the area described, exclusively in MEGA, the shocking moment of the bridge collapse, two and a half kilometers long. “I was at home sleeping and suddenly I felt the house moving somewhat loudly, as if it were an earthquake, as if it were a warplane, passing over the house. It’s too close to my house, almost next door. I live near the port of Baltimore and this is a great tragedy. I could, of course, go through there too, I have been through this point too many times, countless times,” George Komnenos said. On video just before impact, the lights on the ship, blink, seems to lose power and ends up on the bridge. American media reports that he probably suffered mechanical damage while broadcasting a distress signal just before he fell into the pillar. “It seems to be a typical failure in the ship engine, which fell on a bridge pillar, causing excessive pressure. Engineers who will inspect the bridge and prepare emergency plans should find the cause of the bridge collapse. It can be erosion, it can be loose foundations. The metal structure, which we see at the pillars, may have lost its stability,” said Stergios Mitoulis, head of a department of civil engineering University Birmingham. “It’s a huge tragedy. Huge. In the morning it can be full of this bridge with cars, which means they’re even stopped with traffic from one side of the bridge to the other. We are talking about hundreds of cars at the same time they travel on this bridge,” added George Komninos. Experts explain that the collapse of the bridge under the pressure of such a large cargo was prescribed. “A heavy ship, such as this, has a huge displacement, with such a great load of many thousands of tons, when impacting on something. The ship apparently hit a pillar of the bridge. It is no surprise that the bridge collapsed because the support at the point is incomplete,” they say. Francis Scott Key Bridge was built in 1977 and was the most important of the state of Maryland, which has been declared in an emergency. At least 30,000 vehicles passed daily on the four lanes.