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A pair of deadly Navy collisions on destroyer—smashed into a Philippine- hole in the hull, killing 10 sailors and sailors’ bodies from the wreckage. Navy’s Seventh Fleet, from where ships
the USS John S. McCain and the USS flagged cargo ship off Japan, leaving injuring dozens more. An earlier review by the Government sail from Yokosuka and Sasebo on vital
Fitzgerald were ‘avoidable,’ the Navy’s seven sailors dead and leading to operational missions in the South China
top officer says several officers being disciplined. “The collision between John Accountability Office (GAO) found Sea and off the Korean Peninsula.
S. McCain and Alnic MC was also that crews are being overworked and
A pair of collisions in the Pacific The collision was “avoidable and avoidable and resulted primarily from undertrained, just as vital maintenance After the two incidents, the Navy
that left American 17 sailors dead were resulted from an accumulation of complacency, over-confidence and lack is not being completed on time. sacked its Seventh Fleet commander,
avoidable and caused by “multiple smaller errors over time,” the report of procedural compliance,” the report Vice Admiral Joseph Aucoin. n AFP
failures” of those on watch, the Navy states, resulting in “a lack of adherence states. Problems are particularly apparent
said in a report Wednesday. to sound navigational practices.” in vessels ported in Japan, home to the November 1, 2017
“A major contributing factor to the
The separate incidents have “Specifically, Fitzgerald’s watch collision was sub-standard level of
highlighted leadership failures and the teams disregarded established norms of knowledge regarding the operation of
stresses of frequent deployments across basic contact management and, more the ship control console,” the report
the Pacific region, but also have shone importantly, leadership failed to adhere adds.
a spotlight on sailors not paying proper to well-established protocols put in
attention in busy shipping lanes. place to prevent collisions.” Investigators single out the ship’s
commanding officer, who “disregarded
“Both of these accidents were The commanding officer, executive recommendations from his executive
preventable and the respective officer and senior enlisted sailor aboard officer, navigator and senior watch
investigations found multiple failures by the Fitzgerald have all been relieved of officer to set sea and anchor watch
watch standers that contributed to the their duties. teams in a timely fashion to ensure the
incidents,” Chief of Naval Operations safe and effective operation of the ship.”
Admiral John Richardson said in the The second deadly incident came
report. August 21 when the USS John S. In other words, the report says, no
McCain collided with the Alnic MC one on the ship’s bridge knew how to
“We must do better,” he added. merchant tanker as the destroyer correctly operate the ship’s controls.
On June 17, the USS Fitzgerald—a headed to Singapore, tearing a huge
It took seven days to recover the

Saudi-led strike kills 29 at Yemen market: rebel health office
A Saudi-led coalition air strike claiming responsibility for the attack in bags for families to identify in the including the United States, Britain and “By killing innocent Yemenis and

killed 29 people at a crowded Saada governorate. courtyard of a hospital morgue. France, to suspend all weapons sales to by committing such violent acts Saudi

marketplace in the heartland of the Residents at the scene picked The health service said 29 people the Gulf monarchy. Arabia is looking to compensate for
Iran, Saudi tensions. The war pits its political failures and failures on the
Iran-backed Shiite Huthi rebels in through the remnants of stalls, some were killed and 17 others wounded,

northern Yemen on Wednesday, still smouldering, reduced to spindly while the Huthi-run Saba news agency forces loyal to the internationally ground,” foreign ministry spokesman

Huthi health authorities said. metal frames and scattered wreckage, gave a lower toll of 21 dead, all of them recognised government of President Bahram Ghassemi said.

The coalition, which has faced AFP photos showed. civilians. Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, which Multiple rounds of UN-sponsored

repeated international criticism The charred bodies of the victims, Saba accused the Saudi-led coalition was expelled from the capital Sanaa talks have failed to broker a political

over civilian casualties, said it was many of their faces disfigured beyond of carrying out the raid in the Sahar in September 2014, against the settlement between the Saudi-backed

investigating the reports without recognition, were laid on white body district. Huthi rebels who drove them out Hadi government and the rebels.

The alliance enforces an air blockade and continue to control swathes of The war has left more than 8,600

on rebel-held territory and is the only northern Yemen. people dead since the Saudi-led

force whose warplanes are known to The conflict intensified in March coalition intervened in 2015.

operate in Yemen’s north along the 2015, when the Saudi-led coalition A cholera outbreak in the

Saudi border. joined the government’s fight against impoverished country has claimed more

The United Nations blacklisted the the rebels. than 2,100 lives since April, as hospitals

coalition in October for killing and Tehran on Monday rejected as struggle to secure supplies amid the air

maiming children, drawing fresh calls “ridiculous and baseless” accusations and sea blockade.

from rights groups to step up pressure by Saudi Arabia that Iran is providing The United Nations has warned

on Riyadh over the conflict. military support to the rebels and Yemen now stands on the brink of

The coalition was briefly included on blocking peace efforts in Yemen. famine.

the annual list of shame last year before Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat had The UN Human Rights Council in

a threat by Saudi Arabia to cut off its accused Tehran of smuggling arms to September agreed to send a group of

funding to UN programmes forced a the Huthis and to their allies. experts to investigate alleged violations

Yemenis check the aftermath reversal. In a statement on Wednesday Iran andabusesin Yemen, overcoming strong
of an air strike in Saada Human rights groups have urged “vigorously condemned” the attack on resistance by Riyadh’s representative. n
governorate in north Yemen the market.
on November 1, 2017 governments backing the coalition, AFP November 1, 2017

Pakistan airline sorry for forgetting two corpses in NY PIA has been plagued by myriad
controversies in recent years

TWO corpses were left behind at a Following the mix-up, the corpse of expresses its sympathies with the family for VIPs while flight employees have

New York airport instead of being flown Pakistani man Nasir Ali was delivered to members of the deceased persons,” been caught smuggling goods ranging

to Lahore, Pakistan’s national airline Lahore Wednesday on a Etihad Airways a spokesman for the airline said in a from iPhones to narcotics.

said, apologising Wednesday for the flight, while the family of another man statement. Last year two airline employees were

latest embarrassing mishap to hit the Nauman Badar has now decided to PIA was once considered a global killed at Karachi airport during a nine-

troubled carrier. bury him in Maryland instead. leader in commercial aviation until the day strike spurred by plans to privatise

The oversight occurred on Saturday Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) 1970s but has since been plagued by the national carrier.

at New York’s JFK airport as the airline Chairman Musharraf Rasool Cyan has myriad controversies in recent years In 2013 one of its pilots was jailed

prepared for its final flight from the US ordered an inquiry into the oversight, a and saddled by billions of dollars of for nine months in Britain for being

city to Lahore via Manchester, with the company spokesman told AFP. debt with a potential government drunk before he was due to fly from

route since suspended due to financial PIA “regrets the inconvenience bailout looming. Leeds to Islamabad with 156 people on

losses. caused due to negligence... and Domestic flights are often delayed board. n AFP November 1, 2017