A new report from the National Transportation Safety Board found that the container ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, resulting in the bridge’s collapse, had two previous electrical blackouts just days before the transportation tragedy.
“On March 25, about 10 hours before leaving Baltimore, the Dali experienced a blackout (loss of electrical power to the HV [high voltage] and LV [low voltage] buses) during in-port maintenance,” the NTSB preliminary report said. The loss of power occurred after “a crewmember mistakenly closed an inline engine exhaust damper.”
“Vessel power was restored when crewmembers manually closed HR2 and LR2 [step-down transformers]. Generator no. 3 continued to run for a short period, but insufficient fuel pressure caused its speed to decrease, and its breaker (DGR3) opened; a second blackout (another loss of electrical power to the HV and LV buses) occurred,” the report added.
From The Daily Wire:
In the early hours of March 26, the Dali suffered two more electrical blackouts before it collided with the bridge’s support beam and caused the middle section of the 1.6-mile-long bridge to crash into the Patapsco River. Video of the incident shows the Dali’s lights go out moments before it rams into the support beam. Six men who were working on the bridge at the time fell into the water and died.
In the early hours of March 26, the Dali suffered two more electrical blackouts before it collided with the bridge’s support beam and caused the middle section of the 1.6-mile-long bridge to crash into the Patapsco River. Video of the incident shows the Dali’s lights go out moments before it rams into the support beam. Six men who were working on the bridge at the time fell into the water and died.
This was from the NTSB’s initial report, released shortly after the accident:
“Around 01:26:39 the ship’s pilot made a general VHF [very high frequency] call for tugs in the vicinity of the DALI. MDTA data from around this time indicated the pilot association dispatcher phoned the MDTA duty officer regarding the blackout. Around 1:27:04, the pilot commanded the DALI to drop the port anchor and issued additional steering commands,” the NTSB said. “Around 1:27:25, the pilot issued a radio call over the VHF radio and reported the DALI had lost all power approaching the Key Bridge,” adding that at roughly 1:29 a.m., “the ship’s speed over ground was recorded as just under 7 knots/8 miles per hour. From this moment until approximately 1:29:33, VDR audio recorded sounds consistent with the collision with the Key bridge.”
More over at The Daily Wire:
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