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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.
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.
'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."
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.
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.
A sheriff in Missouri said a tourist boat has apparently capsized on the lake, leavin... . Emergency responders work at Table Rock Lake after a deadly boat accident in Branson, Mo., Thursday, July 19, 2018.
From Malibu to Santa Cruz, wealthy people are blocking access to California's publicly owned beaches. And no group has fought the public longer than the gated community of Hollister Ranch , about 130 miles north of Los Angeles.
At least 13 people, including children, are dead after a duck boat on a lake in southern Missouri capsized during a sudden thunderstorm on Thursday evening. There were 31 people on board the boat when it sank, reported CNN .
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.
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson says emergency responders and civilian rescuers helped prevent an even worse tragedy after a duck boat capsized on a lake and killed 17 people. Parson spent Friday in the Branson area after the boat sank Thursday evening on Table Rock Lake amid high winds.
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.
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.
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.
With a new government in place in Italy this month, it didn't take long for some new policies to come into effect. This is particularly true when it comes to questions about immigration and the ongoing migrant crisis.
Watchstanders in North Carolina received the notification from Perquimans County 911 around 3:40 p.m. A 16-foot bass boat capsized and the two passengers were in distress. A rescue boat from Coast Guard station Elizabeth City was diverted and an HH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter from Air Station Elizabeth City was dispatch to assist.
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.
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.
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.
Born in 1819 in Manhattan, Herman Melvill was born into the middle class, as his father was a merchant specializing in goods from France. But when his father died in 1832, the family plunged into near-poverty, which had actually already started because of his father's massive debts.
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.