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The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday morning over Baltimore's Patapsco River, where six people remain missing, is drawing tragic comparisons to a similar bridge collapse in Florida, 44 years ago.
The collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge this week spurred recollections of the 1980 Sunshine Skyway tragedy.
On Tuesday the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore crumbled into the water after being struck by a ship, much like bridges in Georgia, Kentucky, and Oklahoma, which met the same fate.
The original Sunshine Skyway Bridge, which collapsed in 1980, opened just a few years before the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
When Paul Tash, former chairman and CEO of Times Publishing Co., heard the news Tuesday morning about a cargo ship striking the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, it took him right back to May 9, 1980 — the day the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapsed. Then a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times, Tash was sent out to cover the story as it was breaking. A freighter slammed into the southbound ...