FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedin The chief engineer of the cargo ship Dali, which struck and destroyed Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in March 2024, has reached a deferred prosecution agreement with U.S. authorities. The Indian national, admitted he failed to report a hazardous condition to the U.S. Coast Guard, specifically that the ship was operating with an unsafe fuel supply pump. Under the agreement, he will serve 36 months of probation and avoid prosecution if he complies with its terms. RelatedNews MV Dali: Chief Engineer faces charges over Key Bridge fatal disaster Preliminary report links MSC Elsa-3 sinking to system failures and poor maintenance var jnews_module_21376213_0_6a3544d5a7723 = {"header_icon":"","first_title":"Related","second_title":"News","url":"","header_type":"heading_8","header_background":"","header_secondary_background":"","header_text_color":"","header_line_color":"","header_accent_color":"","header_filter_category":"","header_filter_author":"","header_filter_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_post_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_tribe_events_cat":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_category":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_tag":"","header_filter_text":"All","sticky_post":false,"sticky_post_filter":false,"post_type":"post","content_type":"all","sponsor":false,"number_post":"2","post_offset":0,"unique_content":"unique1","include_post":"","included_only":false,"exclude_post":"21376213","include_category":"","exclude_category":"","include_author":"","include_tag":"4004,234,538","exclude_tag":"","exclude_visited_post":false,"post_tag":"","tribe_events_cat":"","web_story_category":"","web_story_tag":"","sort_by":"latest","show_date":"","date_format":"default","date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","pagination_mode":"disable","pagination_nextprev_showtext":"","pagination_number_post":"2","pagination_scroll_limit":0,"ads_type":"disable","ads_position":1,"ads_random":"","ads_image":"","ads_image_tablet":"","ads_image_phone":"","ads_image_link":"","ads_image_alt":"","a