Posted on June 17, 2026
The chief engineer aboard the Dali container ship when it destroyed Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, killing six people, was criminally charged Monday in Maryland federal court.
The Justice Department alleged in court documents that Karthikeyan Deenadayalan, who served as chief engineer in the weeks leading up to the deadly crash, failed to notify the U.S. Coast Guard of “hazardous conditions” aboard the ship before it left the Port of Baltimore in March 2024.
