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The five minutes that brought down the Baltimore bridge

By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Annie Correal, Campbell Robertson, Michael Forsythe, Mike Baker
New York Times·
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The five minutes that brought down the Baltimore bridge
The five minutes that brought down the Baltimore bridge

When a massive cargo ship lost power in Baltimore, crews scrambled to control the ship and to evacuate the bridge lying ahead. But it was too late.

“Hold all traffic on the Key Bridge.”

The terse command from an officer in Baltimore’s busy commercial shipping port was one of the

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