Perhaps in reverse though? Before the lights went out the ship was in the correct channel and headed for the middle of the opening. The lights go out and it starts to turn. The lights come back on a black smock starts coming out the exhaust stack. The lights go out again and then a few seconds later the smoke quits coming out. Then the lights come back on, more smoke starts up again, and the ship seems to straighten out and maybe even turn away from the pylon then impact. I think they got hacked and shut down.

When the hack happened it killed the motor and generators. The drag on the propeller started turning the ship. They started the motor back up and threw it in reverse and throttle it wide open and tried to turn left. They got hacked again and loose motor and lights but get started back up and drop an anchor on the back left side and start to correct but it's too late.

The anchor and warning call tell me the crew were trying to avoid this. All the hacker really needed to do was inflict a kill switch at the right time to float this battering ram in the right direction and down it goes.