The lawsuit filed in Maryland provides the most detailed account yet of the cascading series of failures on the Dali that left the vessel’s pilots and

Six people died in March when a cargo ship struck a pier of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, causing it to collapse.

The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit seeking over $100 million in cleanup costs against the owner and manager of the cargo ship responsible for the Baltimore bridge collapse.

The government filed a civil claim against the owner and operator of the containership that caused the deadly collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

The crash of the Dali into the Francis Scott Key Bridge killed six people. The federal government says the owner and the operator were “grossly negligent” and “reckless.”

The lawsuit filed in Maryland alleges that the electrical and mechanical systems on the ship were improperly maintained, causing it to lose power and veer off course before striking a support column on the Francis Scott Key Bridge in March.

It was just another overnight shift for Damon Davis, a road construction inspector who was supervising repairs on Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge — until the deck beneath his feet started crumbling.