The National Transportation Safety Board is sending a team of investigators by road to the New Orleans ship collision and has dropped plans to send a board member, citing delays from the nationwide ground stop.
In a statement on X, reported by NBC News, the NTSB said:
"Due to the residual delays from the nationwide ground stop, the NTSB will no longer send a board member and will instead send a team of investigators by ground to the scene of the vessel collision in New Orleans."
Representative Troy Carter, the Democratic congressman for Louisiana's 2nd District, had said earlier that the stop was holding NTSB investigators who wanted to reach the city. The NTSB statement bears out his account that the stop disrupted its travel. It does not address his detail that the team would normally fly in on an FAA charter plane from Washington.
NBC News reports that no one died in the collision between a tanker and a docked cruise ship on the Mississippi River, but some people were injured.