24 July 2017

News Story: US Navy may have prompted deadly crash - CNN

Damaged USS Fitzgerald (Click Image to Enlarge)
NEW YORK (Kyodo) -- Preliminary findings in the probe into the collision between the USS Fitzgerald and a Filipino cargo ship suggest that the accident was caused by "multiple errors" by the destroyer's crew, CNN reported Friday, quoting two defense officials.

"They did nothing until the last second," one official was quoted as saying. "A slew of things went wrong."

A second official said the crash "will wind up being our (the U.S. Navy's) fault."

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