Posted on 06/22/2017 6:39:56 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
Japanese authorities said Thursday they have obtained a data recording device from a container ship to help determine why it collided with a U.S. destroyer, killing seven American sailors. Japanese transport safety officials said they obtained the voyage data recorder, similar to an airplane’s “black box,” from the Philippine-flagged ACX Crystal, which is currently docked in Yokohama near Tokyo.
Investigators are examining the ship’s movements, including its location, direction, speed and other data to determine the cause of its collision with the USS Fitzgerald early Saturday off Izu Peninsula, west of Tokyo. “By analyzing the data, we should be able to determine the circumstances of how it crashed,” Transport Safety Board spokesman Katsunori Takahashi said.
The safety board is focusing on the cause of the collision and the lessons to be learned, while Japan’s coast guard is investigating possible professional negligence in the accident.
U.S. Navy and Coast Guard officials are investigating the destroyer at its home port, Yokosuka naval base.
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Screw ups happen. I’ve always been amazed by the Honda Point disaster that the Navy had in 1923. http://www.naval-history.net/WW1z07Americas.htm
I am grateful to you, because I was at a loss when I originally saw the track, and thought why on earth would it look like that?
I sure wouldn’t have got from the media the analysis you gave!
If you are contemplating starting a thread of your own (is that what a FreeperED post is?) I would highly suggest it.
You would probably have some very good discussion occur there. I use Illustrator, but am not as accomplished in it anymore as I used to be, since I use Photoshop all the time now.
If I can assist in ANY way, let me know.
Ah, yes. That was the one where the destroyers in a fog all followed their leader right onto the rocks, IIRC.
No, thank you!
Still think the commerce ship was hacked.
Thanks shipmate, failure of leadership which expresses itself through pi$$ poor comms...Leyte Gulf was still at 1600yds, IIRC, even though flt ops secured couple hours earlier.
I also served on the USS BELKNAP CG-26...that collision at sea killed several, but well before I served on her.
You think the software that runs the autopilot or manual control of the ship was remotely hacked, and programmed or directed remotely? (someone in a room somewhere with a joystick?)
Just curious.
Most people who don’t think it was human error think Jihadis took over the bridge...hacked indicates a computer breach and then control by someone else.
don’t know, just art of the possible...but still doesn’t explain how the bridge team didn’t react as normal.
In one of these discussions on this, I gave an example of the USS Missouri running aground in 1950.
It seems fantastic when you read that account. Those people knew the Chesapeake Bay. The Captain and crew had a lot of experience. But they ran a 55,000 ton ship a half a mile onto a shoal in gooey mud at 15 knots. How could it happen? It seems impossible. But it did. And this type of thing happens over and over and over again. The details vary, but it does.
With depressing predictablity and regularity.
Anyway, I think what you suggest is far-fetched, IMO. We could think up a lot of different scenarios, but in the end...it is fallible people.
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