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.

In a lawsuit, the DOJ called the disaster that left six workers dead and the Francis Scott Key Bridge destroyed an "entirely avoidable tragedy."

Federal prosecutors on Wednesday filed suit against the owner of the container ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore earlier this year, alleging that the company and those on board the ship knew about persistent faulty electrical and mechanical problems and failed to fix them.