Costa Corncordia Trial: 5 People Jailed So Far
Four Costa Concordia crew members and a company official were sentenced to jail in Italy for their part in the 2012 cruise ship disaster that killed 32 people, leaving only the captain still on trial, reports Reuters. The five received sentences of between 18 and 34 months for multiple manslaughter, negligence and shipwreck - relatively short terms for the crimes, in exchange for pleading guilty.None of the five are likely to be jailed as the sentences of under two years were suspended and the longer ones may be replaced with house arrest or community service, say Reuters citing lawyers. The court gave the crisis coordinator for vessel owner Costa Cruises…
'Costa Concordia' Safety Violations Identified
Not all of the Costa Concordia’s control systems were working. But the most serious anomaly, according to the experts’ findings, concerns the 'black box' (Voyage Data Recorder') which had not been working since 9 January, four days before the shipwreck that cost thirty-two lives. Experts appointed by the court of Grosseto put this in their report, also pointing out that they had only been able to examine data from the ship’s computer. They had to work on incomplete evidence since no data at all was recorded after 11.36 pm on 13 January. This means that most of the evacuation of the ship took place “in the dark”. They were also unsure whether data recorded on the computer, rather than on the malfunctioning 'black box', had been interferred with in some way.
