Inspector warned duck boat company of design flaws nearly a year ago

A private inspector said Saturday that he warned the company operating duck boats on a Missouri lake about design flaws putting the watercraft at greater risk of sinking, less than a year before the accident that killed 17 people during a sudden storm. Steve Paul, owner of the Test Drive Technologies inspection service in the St. Louis area, said he issued a written report for the company in August.

Inspector warned duck boat company of design flaws last year

A private inspector said Saturday that he warned the company operating duck boats on a Missouri lake about design flaws putting the watercraft at greater risk of sinking, less than a year before the accident that killed 17 people during a sudden storm. Steve Paul, owner of the Test Drive Technologies inspection service in St. Louis, said he issued a written report for the company in August 2017.

Captain told us not to wear life jackets, says duckboat survivor who lost NINE of her family

'As a former KBG spy, he knows how to manipulate': Hillary Clinton hints that Putin played Trump during the Helsinki summit and questions why the president has not 'spoken up for our country' Captain told us it was safe not to wear life jackets, says duckboat survivor who lost NINE of her family Passengers on a tour boat that sunk, killing 17 people - including nine from one family, four of them aged under ten - were told it was safe not to wear life jackets, a survivor said. Tia Coleman, who lost all her children in the tragedy, said: 'The captain told us, "Don't worry about grabbing the life jackets, you won't need them."

It could take a year to get answers on the duck boat tragedy, official says

The investigation into the sinking of a duck boat that killed 17 people in southwestern Missouri --- including nine from one family -- could take up to a year to complete, the National Transportation Safety Board said. The Ride the Ducks Branson amphibious tour boat had 31 aboard when it sank Thursday evening during an intense squall on Table Rock Lake near Branson.

Names of those 17 killed in Table Rock Lake boat accident…

BRANSON, Mo.: More than half of the 17 people killed when a tourist boat sank on a Branson lake were members of the same Indiana family, and they likely would not have been on the ill-fated trip but for a ticket mix-up. Tracy Beck, of Kansas City, Missouri, said she recalled the family members waiting in line.

The Latest: Boat victims mourned

It's been five months since they have seen their infant son Johan Bueso Castillo who was separ... A Honduran man who was separated from his baby son at the Texas border and then deported without him soon will hold the boy again. A Honduran man who was separated from his baby son at the Texas border and then deported without him soon will hold the boy again.

Body of missing boater found by good Samaritan in Corsica River after 2-day search

The body of a woman who fell out of a racing sailboat during a practice on the Corsica River between Queen Anne's and Kent counties on Friday night was found nearby Sunday morning by a good Samaritan while crews searched the area, according to Maryland Natural Resources Police. Stephanie Meredith, 35, of Easton was one of 17 people aboard the log canoe when it capsized on a sharp turn before dark Friday night, said Candy Thomson, a Natural Resources Police spokeswoman.

Search for missing victims of capsized boat stopped

The search and rescue operation to find the missing victims of the boat which capsized in the waters off Kota Tinggi last Monday, has been stopped. Johor Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency deputy director of operations, Capt Sanifah Yusof said the agency decided to call off the operation at 7.30 pm yesterday as there were no new leads and a slim chance of finding the victims.

Happy 50th to America’s biggest military airplane

One of the largest airplanes in the world -- a jet that forever changed America's military and airline industry -- is turning half a century old. When you see a C-5 Galaxy on the ground for the first time, the first thing that strikes you is... it's freakishly huge.

48 migrants die after boat sinks off Tunisian coast

The number of illegal immigrants killed after their boat sank off the southeastern coast of Tunisia on Sunday has risen to 48, according to the Ministry of Defense. A total of 75 people have been rescued people so far, including 60 Tunisians, five from Sub-Saharan Africa, two Moroccans and one Libyan, said Rachid Bouhawala, the press officer at the Ministry of Defense.

Evidence Shows President John F. Kennedy Learned to Fly at…

Just in Time for the 101st Anniversary of Kennedy's Birthday on May 29, Flight Logs and Other Data Reveals JFK flew solo in just ten days at an Embry-Riddle seaplane base in Miami during World War II. New documents reveal U.S. President John F. Kennedy, learned to fly at an Embry-Riddle seaplane base in Miami during World War II.

Trump opposes Senate candidate who’s ‘Trumpier than Trump’

The anti-establishment fervor unleashed by Trump's spectacular 2016 election win has proven hard to control. West Virginia Republican voters will decide Tuesday if they want an ex-con coal baron as their US senator, even though President Donald Trump himself has warned the candidate is too radical to prevail in November's mid-term elections.

Ted Kennedy spoke of a family curse after Chappaquiddick; he had good reason

Among the “scrambled thoughts” that came to a young Ted Kennedy as he stumbled from the water into which he had crashed his Oldsmobile, killing his passenger and crippling his political career, was a sort of existential question, if not a supernatural one. The 37-year-old U.S. senator from Massachusetts wondered that night in 1969 whether “some awful curse did actually hang over all the Kennedys.” He recalled the thought aloud one week later in a televised speech, after pleading guilty to leaving the scene of the crash and failing to notify police until morning, as Mary Jo Kopechne died in the water off Chappaquiddick Island.