A U.S. Navy vessel has collided with a container vessel southwest of Yokosuka, Japan:
Seven U.S. sailors are unaccounted for after a Navy destroyer collided with a merchant ship southwest of Yokosuka, Japan, early Saturday local time, a U.S. official and the Navy said.
Some flooding was reported aboard the USS Fitzgerald, a 505-foot destroyer, after the collision with a Philippine container vessel at approximately 2:30 a.m. Saturday local time (1:30 p.m. ET Friday), about 56 nautical miles of Yokosuka, the U.S. 7th Fleet said.
Also at Reuters.
mrpg wrote in with another story about a U.S. Navy sailor who was reported missing and presumed dead after a search by the Navy, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, and Japan's Coast Guard. He was found days later, hiding in one of the engine rooms.
(Score: 2) by canopic jug on Saturday June 17 2017, @10:23AM
It will be interesting, in a sad way, to get to the bottom of why the could not avoid the collision. In 1998, M$ Windows caused a crusier to be dead in the water [gcn.com] and have to be towed back to port like a barge. If Vista10 or any of its predecessors were infecting the control systems of this destroyer, then heads should roll in procurement ashore not just the bridge crew.
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