"The collisions were avoidable." A Navy report blamed a string of basic errors for two deadly destroyer accidents in the Pacific this year.
Wednesday, November 1, 2017 8:36 AM EDT
Two collisions between Navy destroyers and commercial vessels in the Western Pacific earlier this year were “avoidable” and the result of a string of crew and basic navigational errors, the Navy’s top officer said in a report to be made public on Wednesday.
Seven sailors were killed in June when the destroyer Fitzgerald collided with a container ship near Japan. The collision in August of the John S. McCain — another destroyer, named after Senator McCain’s father and grandfather — and an oil tanker in Southeast Asia left 10 sailors dead.
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