Security protocol breach resulted in missile misfire, Taiwan says

 

 

TAIPEI: -- Taiwan’s defence ministry has admitted the misfiring of a missile last month was caused by a failure in security protocol.

 

The long range anti-ship rocket was mistakenly launched towards China during a training exercise. It hit a Taiwanese trawler, killing the skipper and injuring three crew.

 

The accident apparently happened when a naval officer, who had been left unsupervised in the control room, decided to practice firing procedures while unaware the system was in ‘‘combat mode’‘.

 

 

-- © Copyright Euronews 2016-08-30

I'm rewriting this headline 'Idiot fires missile and kills someone'.

 

The compensation for this act should be in the tens of millions of dollars and that's just for the victims family, never mind the damage to the trawler.

 

If anything it will discourage 'those in charge' from allowing complete morons from access to the 'button'.

luckily it wasn't a nuke!

4 hours ago, webfact said:

naval officer, who had been left unsupervised

was it an unsupervised admiral?

Edited August 30, 20169 yr by klauskunkel