US Edition5 reportedly injured after South Korean ferry with about 270 people runs aground
All 267 passengers and crew were rescued after the ferry ran aground near Jindo due to alleged crew negligence involving mobile phone distraction, with five minor injuries reported.
- On Wednesday, a South Korean ferry carrying nearly 270 people ran aground on rocks off the southwest coast of South Korea, the South Korea Coast Guard said.
- The ship was sailing from Jeju island to Mokpo, southwestern port city, when the ferry ran aground; the cause was not immediately clear, the coast guard said.
- Authorities said the ship carried 267 people, including 246 passengers and 21 crew members on the ferry.
- The coast guard mobilized all available rescue assets after receiving a report late Wednesday to rescue those on board the ferry carrying 267 people.
- The Yonhap news agency reported five people suffered minor injuries and no other casualties have been reported.
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South Korea Arrests Crew Members for Negligence After Ferry Runs Aground
SEOUL—South Korea’s coast guard launched an investigation on Thursday into a ferry that ran aground overnight, arresting the first officer and an Indonesian crew member for suspected gross negligence, officers said. The two were at the helm of the vessel and are suspected of waiting too long to override the autopilot, allowing the ship to run into an uninhabited island in a busy passage approaching the southwestern port of Mokpo, the coast guard…
The crew members scrolled through the news on their mobile phones in a narrow passage that required manual navigation.
Ferry runs aground while helmsman "distracted by phone"
A ferry transporting 267 passengers and crew ran aground Wednesday en route from Jeju Island to Mokpo in South Korea. All the passengers were rescued and investigators have already found a suspect: the helmsman was on his phone. A preliminary investigation found that "the officer responsible for steering had been looking at his mobile phone and allowed autopilot to take control in an area where the ship should have been manually operated", a Ko…
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