2011 Italy Cruise Ship Accident

Technicians pass in a small boat near the stricken cruise liner Costa Concordia lying aground in front of the Isola del Giglio on January 26 2012.

2011 italy cruise ship accident. Francesco Schettino were charged with various crimes. MSC Cruises brand new Grandiosa ship crashed into a pier as it attempted to dock in Palermo Sicily around 830 am. Thirty-two people died after the Costa Concordia cruis ship ran aground with more than 4000 passengers and crew on 13 January 2012 only hours after leaving the Italian port of Civitavecchia.

The ocean liner SS Andrea Doria was rammed by MS Stockholm now Astoria on July 25 1956. Brown mud covered what had been the submerged side of the ship now gashed and crumpled under the vessel. Concorde plane crash accident - a French aircraft with 100 Peter Deilmann cruise passengers booked on MS Deutschland crashed on takeoff from Paris France leaving no survivors.

Earlier Saturday Schettino told Italian television that the vessel had hit a rocky spur while cruising in waters which according to the charts should have been safe on Italys west coast. A total of 46 people were killed in the collision. Eyewitnesses have described scenes of chaos on board the Italian cruise ship the Costa Concordia which has run aground off Italy.

Cruise ship shop worker Fabio Costa. The cruise ship MSC Opera R is seen after the collision with a tourist boat in Venice Italy June 2 2019. When the 114137-ton Costa Concordia and her sister ships entered service they were among the largest ships built in Italy until the construction of the 130000 GT Dream-class cruise ships.

GIGLIO Italy Rescuers pulled five bodies clad in sodden life vests from the partly sunken cruise liner Costa Concordia on Tuesday bringing the death toll in the disaster to at least 11 as. People started to panic. Photos of the Costa Concordia accident can be found on the stock photo sites Getty Images Shutterstock and Alamy.

Sadly five passengers were injured as a result. But the helmsman did not follow my orders correctly Schettino told a court in Grosseto where the trial against him for manslaughter and abandoning ship resumed after a summer recess. No injuries have been reported in relation to the accident.