The Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) failed to conduct a critical vulnerability assessment that would have allowed them to identify previously known structural risks with the Francis Scott ...

THE RESPONSE FROM MDTA. LAWMAKERS ARE FURIOUS, SAYING THE FINDINGS ARE DISGUSTING. THE STATE DROPPED THE BALL AND ASKING, WHERE’S THE ACCOUNTABILITY? WE ASKED MDTA, ARE YOU DOING IT IN WRITING?

Jerry Jackson/The Baltimore Sun/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Homendy said the MDTA was unable to provide the NTSB with the data needed to conduct the agency's own vulnerability assessment ...

While the bridges that have not been evaluated are not certain to collapse, the NTSB said "had the Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) conducted a vulnerability assessment on the Key Bridge ...

The Maryland Transportation Authority did not conduct a risk assessment that, if acted upon, could have allowed the state to protect the Francis Scott Key Bridge from a catastrophic and deadly ...

"Had the Key Bridge's owner, the Maryland Transportation Authority, or MDTA, conducted a vulnerability assessment based on recent vessel traffic as recommended by AASHTO, MDTA would have been ...

FOX 5 Washington DC MDTA didn't conduct proper risk assessments on Key Bridge: NTSB Posted: March 21, 2025 | Last updated: March 21, 2025 Maryland leaders should’ve known Baltimore's Key Bridge ...

National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy told reporters the Maryland Transportation Authority, or MDTA, "never ran" the recommended vulnerability assessment for the bridge.

“The MdTA would have been aware that this bridge was at risk,” Homendy said. “MdTA would have had information to proactively identify strategies to prevent the risk of collapse and loss of life.

She says these evaluations were requested in 1991 and 2009. "We conclude in our report that had the MDTA conducted a vulnerability assessment of the Key Bridge, based on recent vessel traffic ...

NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said Thursday the MDTA never ran that calculation for the Key Bridge, and as of October 2024, still hadn’t done so for the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. “Had they ran the ...