Italian Cruise Ship Sinking Captain

Captain Francesco Schettino was this week sentenced to 16 years in jail for manslaughter.

Italian cruise ship sinking captain. The captain of the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia has been found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 16 years in prison. Extraordinary claims emerged last night that the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner which foundered off the coast of Italy with more than. A honeymooning couple has been rescued from a capsized cruise ship 24 hours after it ran aground off Tuscany.

If passenger accounts are correct Captain Schettino will long be considered a coward who abandoned his responsibilities and duties after wrecking the Concordia and killing scores of innocents in the process. Italian cruise ship captain ordered back to shipSky News17 Jan 12 1359 GMTTRT 0355A dramatic recording has been released apparently r. More than 4200 people were rescued though 32 people died.

Here is a translation of the transcript of the conversation between Capt. Costa Concordia crash The captain of the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia has been found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 16 years in prison. Francesco Schettino captain of the Costa Concordia could be slapped with manslaughter charges after the cruise ship hit rocks near the island of Giglio on Friday authorities said.

Costa Concordia disaster the capsizing of an Italian cruise ship on January 13 2012 after it struck rocks off the coast of Giglio Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea. Schettino is charged with multiple manslaughter over the 32 people who lost their lives and is accused of abandoning the ship while terrified passengers were still inside in the January 13 2012 disaster. Several of the ships crew notably Capt.

The captain of the ill-fated Costa Concordia cruise ship Francesco Schettino takes place for his trial on July 9 2013 in Grosseto. Francesco Schettino Italian pronunciation. ROME -- Italian Captain Francesco Schettino was found guilty today for causing the fatal shipwreck of the Costa Concordia and sentenced to 16 years in prison according to a three-judge panel.

Secondly what happened to the captain of the Italian cruise ship. Captain Francesco Schettino was at the command of the cruise liner in January 2012 when it hit rocks off the coast of Tuscany and sank killing 32 people. Born 14 November 1960 is an Italian former sea captain who commanded the cruise ship Costa Concordia when it struck an underwater rock and capsized with the deaths of 32 passengers and crew off the Italian island of Giglio on 13 January 2012.