Re: Full video of ship hitting and destroying the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore

Out of all the hours it sailed in operation, maintenance checks were all fine
then out of the blue not 1 but 3 power failures, and not out in the middle of the ocean
from harms way...just close enough to a bridge and hit the weakest spot. What a
"fluke"

I read that cargo ships of this size run diesel generators to power the steering pumps at low speed and then do PTO from the main shaft once they're cruising, and that the black smoke may have been an emergency generator coming up. But the steering pumps probably aren't a priority, in a river current that thing's a cork on backup power.