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Rescue efforts are underway, with it believed that 20 construction crew were on the bridge at the time as well as around 20 cars crossing the bridge
The Dali container ship had undergone 27 inspections since 2015, and it had been found to have two 'deficiencies', according to a CNN review of records from the Electronic Quality Shipping Information System (Equasis).
Notably, this included a June 2023 inspection in San Antonio, Chile, where a deficiency was found in the 'propulsion and auxiliary machinery' - with propulsion faults also noted in the early CISA report. .'
No deficiencies were found when the vessel was last inspected on September 9, 2023 by the US Coast Guard in New York.
Professor Helen Sampson, an expert at the Seafarers International Research Centre at Cardiff University, speculated that human error may have also contributed to the accident.
Because the ship crashed at 1:30am, she told Sky News: 'The time makes me also wonder whether there was an element of fatigue at play.
'It's almost always the case that we focus on human error at the individual level, it's almost always the case that there's a broader context which has resulted in that human error, like fatigue and the demands made on pilots or on crews.'
The early CISA report noted that the crew warned officials that they had lost control of the vessel moments before impact.
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REVEALED: Doomed Baltimore cargo ship was piloted by specialist crew
Questions are swirling as to how a cargo ship smashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore overnight - with it believed a propulsion error may have been the cause.www.dailymail.co.uk
It would be odd indeed for fatigue to have played a role. The ship was just starting its journey.