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Uwajima The U.S. Navy's second-ranking officer, Admiral William Fallon, apologized in person to the families of four fisheries students, two teachers and three crew members missing and presumed dead since a surfacing U.S. submarine sank their training vessel off the coast of Hawaii. Earlier, Commander Scott Waddle, who...
Thursday, the Navy continued its inquiry into the February 9 collision that killed nine Japanese civilians and ended the careers of several submarine officers. Defense attorney Charles Gittens, hired by Commander Scott Waddle, tried to discount the prosecutorial picture of the collision by pointing repeatedly to the negligence of one...
Waller: He can't. You're not going to find one fatal error that caused the submarine to collide with that fishing boat. This accident wasn't caused by one person or one single event. As with most disastrous submarine accidents, this was a result of a combination of dozens...
So even if the fire control technician had, for some reason, failed to do his job, this accident wouldn't have happened?
But even though the blame for the accident will be spread around, won't one person need to shoulder the bulk of the condemnation?