re: Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has collapsed - container ship wrecked into it

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My guess is that they went blackship, the emergency gen kicked on, capt thought he could steer out of it, went black again, crash stop anchor down just to lessen the blow.

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I would love (but it won't happen) an in-depth interview of the 2 Baltimore harbor pilots onboard at the time. Their unvarnished story would answer a lot of our questions.

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Not likely. All the black smoke was most likely going full back on the main engine. It could have possibly been the generators coming back online but they generally don't smoke THAT much. The speed reduction also indicates that the main engine was likely reversed before the hit. The anchor went down as well but I doubt that did anything.

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At this point no one knows that I’ve seen?. I’d agree with you certainly and don’t have evidence not to. But the one thing we all know, is that the black smoke is almost perfectly in sequence with the lights on and off.

There maybe a better reason, but if the ship was veering starboard with forward thrust, why not reverse thrust immediately to pull it back to port? Im not suggesting the ship actually would reverse, I’m saying the screw reversing direction would generally steer the ship the other direction.

Neither of those two appeared to happen in the videos.