2011 Italy Cruise Ship Accident

The ship ran aground on 14 January 2012 near the Italian island of Isola del Giglio.

2011 italy cruise ship accident. MSC Cruises brand new Grandiosa ship crashed into a pier as it attempted to dock in Palermo Sicily around 830 am. Construction and maiden voyage. On January 13 2012 the cruise ship Costa Concordia a 114500-ton vessel valued at 450 million USD struck a rock and capsized off the coast of the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio Italy.

People started to panic. Francesco Schettino captain of Italys doomed Costa Concordia cruise ship on Monday blamed the Indonesian helmsman for causing the accident that killed 32 people. 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.

Eyewitnesses have described scenes of chaos on board the Italian cruise ship the Costa Concordia which has run aground off Italy killing at least five people. In an interview. Cruise ship shop worker Fabio Costa.

On 13 January 2012 at 2145 Costa Concordia struck a rock in the Tyrrhenian Sea just off the eastern shore of Isola del Giglio. I wanted to slow the ship down. More than 4200 people were rescued though 32 people died.

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. The ocean liner SS Andrea Doria was rammed by MS Stockholm now Astoria on July 25 1956. By James Mackenzie GIGLIO Italy Reuters - The Costa Concordia was pulled upright off the Italian island of Giglio on Tuesday in a tense salvage operation that revealed the damage to a once gleaming cruise liner that had lain on its side for 20 months after capsizing killing 32 people.

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. In the aftermath of the grounding the scene was utter chaos when the 4200 passengers and crew attempted to egress from the crippled ship as it keeled over in the shallow waters. 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.