String of errors causes ferry grounding - report

Alfred damage

More than 40 passengers and crew were injured when a master fell asleep at the helm of a ro-ro passenger ferry, investigators have found.

The passage plan was also ‘inadequate’ and the ferry’s primary means of navigation ’was not being used effectively to support safe navigation and warn of danger’.

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