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Re: USS Fitzgerald collision with container ship
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2017 Jun 24, 23:16 -0700
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2017 Jun 24, 23:16 -0700
Frank Reed wrote:
" This is an extraordinary and awful mystery, and it is difficult to imagine any excuse for it. Something went terribly wrong, and it likely involved a major --and profoundly tragic-- lapse in judgement aboard USS Fitzgerald. "
Quite so. And Frank's most informative link to the Wikipedia article about the Melbourne - Evans collision shows that we cannot necessarily rely on an official board of enquiry coming up with the truth regarding the cause of the incident.
Geoffrey Kolbe
