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Considering the cargo ship had tracking technology on board, the crew should have been aware of its location and course the whole time, even if they had been on some kind of exercise where radar and such was turned off to stay invisible.
It's quite obvious that whoever was in command was asleep or distracted.
And there's also a big failure in the command structures if such errors are not noted in time by the base and corrected. Even if there was some kind of radio silence, I'd expect them to be able to put up some kind of data link so the imminent collision should have been visible to someone in Japan or in the Pentagon or so when there was still time to react.
Pains me for the 7 who went over board, 1 or 2 of whom might even have tried to warn the bridge w/o success.
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[–] carlinco 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
Considering the cargo ship had tracking technology on board, the crew should have been aware of its location and course the whole time, even if they had been on some kind of exercise where radar and such was turned off to stay invisible.
It's quite obvious that whoever was in command was asleep or distracted.
And there's also a big failure in the command structures if such errors are not noted in time by the base and corrected. Even if there was some kind of radio silence, I'd expect them to be able to put up some kind of data link so the imminent collision should have been visible to someone in Japan or in the Pentagon or so when there was still time to react.
Pains me for the 7 who went over board, 1 or 2 of whom might even have tried to warn the bridge w/o success.