Originally Posted by
duece71
You would think this wouldn’t occur with eyes in the sky. Remember the collision between a US Navy ship and a cargo ship “On autopilot” a couple of years ago? The cargo ship had to make port on schedule at a specific time, the autopilot apparently steered the cargo ship into a holding pattern of course reversals. That’s when the collision occurred. It was back in 2017.....
https://www.npr.org/2017/08/21/54495...-off-singapore
Even with today’s modern technology, things happen.
the link mentions the USS Fitzgerald that collided with a container ship off the coast of Japan that killed 7 sailors. Contributing factor in that incident was the female Officer of the Deck and the female Officer in Charge of the CIC were feuding and not talking to each other, ain't diversity grand.
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