Authorities recover black box from ship that caused Baltimore bridge to collapse in the early hours of last Tuesday, when the Singapore-flagged ship Dali suffered a power outage after leaving port and crashed into a pillar of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which It collapsed in a matter of seconds.

Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), in charge of recovering the records, have been in charge of analyzing and explaining what happened in those previous moments. The ship’s voyage data recorder (VDR), similar to the black box that records the movements of an airplane, has reportedly sent alarms and ordered to drop anchor shortly before the collision that caused the bridge to collapse.

These records also reveal that The ship lost power at 1:25 in the morning, which triggered multiple alarms and forced the VDR to switch to a backup power source. Just one minute after this event, the ship’s pilot made a distress call to ask a tugboat for helpsaving countless lives as officials closed the road across the bridge in both directions.

At the same time, state transportation authorities They warned that the freighter Dali was in danger.

The VDR also reflects that seconds before the collision the pilot ordered to drop anchor and asked them to move away from the bridge. However, the ship lost power again and It was impossible to avoid the collision, according to the data that has been extracted.

The mayor of BaltimoreBrandon Scott told CNN that rescue efforts are still focused on finding six people who were on the Francis Scott Key Bridge. A “dangerous” job that “today will be even more so” due to “the expected rain and rough waters.” At the moment only the identity of one of the victims is known.