House committee holds hearing on Baltimore bridge collapse after NTSB preliminary report – Boston News, Weather, Sports [Video]

(CNN) — The head of the National Transportation Safety Board and several other government officials are set to speak before a House committee Wednesday morning about the federal response to the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in March.

The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure hearing at 10 a.m. ET will feature four witnesses: NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy, Coast Guard Vice Adm. Peter Gautier, Army Corps of Engineers Major Gen. William H. Graham and Federal Highway Administration Administrator Shailen Bhatt.

The hearing comes a day after the NTSB released a 24-page preliminary report detailing investigators’ early factual findings on the March 26 disaster, when the massive cargo ship Dali smashed into the bridge. The collision brought down the 1.6-mile long steel structure, killed six construction workers on the bridge and severed access to critical shipping routes in and out of the Port of Baltimore.

The report found the Dali was just three ships’ lengths from the bridge when it suffered a pair of …