USS Fitzgerald Investigation Puts Navy at Fault for Deadly Collision
An initial probe finds that the ship’s crew “should have spoken up” earlier./ What caused the bizarre June 17 collision between a U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer and a Philippines cargo ship that killed seven U.S. sailors off the coast of Japan? It looks like some answers may finally be forthcoming. ’s crew did not respond adequately to signals, did not understand that the other ship was drawing near, and may have failed even to summon the commanding officer, “There were many people who should have spoken up,” another official on its ...
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