The cargo ship Dali’s transformer was “jury-rigged” and had “cracked over time” and its backup transformer was unable to help because a safety feature had been “recklessly disabled,” contributing to the vessel ultimately knocking down the Francis Scott Key Bridge,

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking more than $100 million from the two corporations that owned and operated the container ship that destroyed Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in March.

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 Justice Department Wednesday filed a $100 million lawsuit against the owner and operator of the container ship Dali that brought down Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge in March. Six people were killed.