Jennifer Homendy, the chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, said that the container ship Dali lacked a backup power system to avoid the Baltimore Bridge strike.
The nation's top transportation safety investigator informed Congress that cargo ships lack the backup power necessary to prevent incidents like the one that occurred in March when the container ship Dali slammed and collapsed Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge.
In her testimony before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Wednesday, Jennifer Homendy, the chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, stated that emergency lighting, radio equipment, emergency lighting, and a steering pump that enabled low-speed, restricted rudder movements were all restored by the backup generator that activated when the Dali lost power about half a mile from the bridge.
That was insufficient.
She informed the commission, "It does not power propulsion, and without the propeller turning, t...
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