The Black Chronicle By Al Lindsey
January 29, 2022 The full investigation will be “long” and “technical,” the NTSB said. National Transportation Safety Board investigators spent Saturday on scene investigating the bridge that collapsed in Pittsburgh one day earlier. Three people were hospitalized but no one was killed when the Fern Hollow Bridge collapsed before rush hour Friday. Five cars and a Port Authority bus were on the bridge when the bridge collapsed. NTSB chairwoman Jennifer Homendy told reporters Saturday she expects the investigation to be “long” and “technical.” “Our mission here is to determine how this collapse happened, why it happened — to prevent it from happening again,” she said. National Transportation and Safety Board personnel approach one of the cranes that will be used as crews prepare for the cleanup after Friday’s bridge collapse, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022, in Pittsburgh. Investigators used a drone to map the scene and did an initial inspection of the structure and the legs under the deck of the bridge, Homendy said.
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