The Latest: US Navy says search continues for 7 sailors [View all]
Source: The Canadian Press
June 17, 2017 - 8:10pm
Aircraft and vessels are searching for seven missing American sailors in the sea off Japan after a pre-dawn collision between a Navy destroyer and a huge cargo ship. Investigators now face trying to determine how a sophisticated U.S. warship collided with a container ship four times its size.
The USS Fitzgerald was back at its home port in Yokosuka Naval Base south of Tokyo on Saturday with extensive damage to its hull.
Most of the more than 200 sailors aboard would have been asleep in their berths during the pre-dawn crash.The Navy says it remains uncertain how long it will take to gain access to the spaces inside the damaged destroyer in order to methodically search for the missing crew members.
Aircraft and vessels have been looking for the missing personnel since the two ships crashed in the pre-dawn hours Saturday.
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Could 'someone' have monkeyed with either/ both? ships GPS computer system? They're constantly tracked globally.
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