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The Baltimore bridge collision minute by minute: Human error, failing power and bad luck

A crew member accidentally closed an exhaust damper, which triggered the first of the vessel’s four power outages.
Seconds before the collision, power was restored to the Dali, but when the propeller continued to fail, the 10,000-container vessel collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge. | Photo: Mark Schiefelbein/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
Seconds before the collision, power was restored to the Dali, but when the propeller continued to fail, the 10,000-container vessel collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge. | Photo: Mark Schiefelbein/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
by LIV ALMER

A long-awaited preliminary report charting the hours and minutes leading up to the fatal collision between the container vessel Dali and the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore in late March was released on Wednesday morning by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).

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