The last vehicle made it off the bridge just 40 seconds before impact. Incredible response by police officers in stopping traffic! They saved many lives.
At 0.01 ship is seen illuminated. At 0:15 the lights are out. At 1:14 the lights are back on. Shop's power is provided by generators in the engine room does the loss of lights indicate a power outage perhaps of the main engine also? Question...Is electrical power required to operate helm and rudder to maintain steering? Note also that there's no smoke visible above the ship until a plume of smoke begins at about 1:34 was that the engine restarting or was that an emergency order "all astern full"? Heavy smoke right up tp time of impact. NTSB is going to be very busy!
This is what happens when you hire out more people with less training and less maintenance to save a buck. Going 8 knots... JFC 8 knots is the equivalent of going 50mph in a 15mph zone. Typically it’s a 3 to 4 Knots is normal high speed. Biden saying that he is going to have the government pays for its replacement... FJB make the company responsible pay for the bridge and the deaths and property damage on this. This is unacceptable. There is NO situation in that this could ever happen under normal conditions and even under sub optimal conditions. This was intentional, no if's and's or but's about it. There is no reason for it to be going that fast. Chances are they overloaded the electrical system that was probably in some poor maintenance when they tried to reverse. trying to slow down a 8knot container ship that size is like a human trying to hold back an elephant, yea eventually you will slow it down and get it to turn around but it's going to take a LOT OF TIME AND DISTANCE. Just trying to turn that ship takes a LOT OF DISTANCE. The course it had locked in for collision must have been 5 miles back; otherwise it would have hit it from the side. A head on like this is ABSOLUTELY intentional and 100% avoidable in every way.
