Marine One is scheduled to swoop over the wreckage of the Dali container ship and the fallen Francis Scott Key Bridge on Friday, giving President Joe Biden an aerial view of the scene before he meets privately with family members of construction workers killed in the crash.
Biden is slated to leave the White House just after noon aboard the executive helicopter en route to Baltimore, where the Dali lost power and struck the bridge on March 26. Six construction workers who were conducting maintenance on the bridge around 1:30 a.m. that morning were killed.
Marine One, the green helicopter operated by the Marine Corps, has been flying the nation’s chief executives over disaster sites for decades. Perhaps the most memorable was an aerial tour President George W. Bush took in 2005 over New Orleans amid criticism that his administration was doing too little to respond to Hurricane Katrina.
