Video above: NTSB officials provide timeline of events from bridge crash While the tragic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore is frightening, it is anything but isolated, drawing comparisons to several deadly disasters in the United States, including one in Alabama.On Sept. 22, 1993, 47 people were killed and more than 100 were injured in an eerily similar tragedy involving a large ship and a bridge near Mobile.Lost and disoriented inside a patch of dense fog, the Mauvilla, a towboat pushing a barge took a wrong turn while navigating the Mobile River before colliding with the Big Bayou Canot railroad bridge.Less than 10 minutes after the initial crash, the Sunset Limited, an Amtrak train heading to Miami with 220 people on board, collided with the displaced bridge and derailed, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.Seven segments of the train, including two passenger cars, fell from the …
Baltimore bridge collapse:s comparisons to deadly Amtrak disaster in Alabama [Video]
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