Ferry Captain, Owner To Be Indicted Thursday For Deadly Ayutthaya Accident

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Ferry Captain, Owner To Be Indicted Thursday For Deadly Accident

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter -

 

Rescue workers on carry away bodies on Sept. 19 near the site In Ayutthaya province where a ferry boat sank a day earlier, killing 28 people.

 

AYUTTHAYA — Two people will be indicted Thursday for a ferry accident that killed 28 people in Ayutthaya province, police said.

 

Boat owner Sunthorn Pansueathong and operator Wirat Chaisirikul face separate counts relating to the Sept. 18 incident in which a boat carrying religious pilgrims foundered after striking an embankment along the Chao Phraya River while returning from a mosque.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/crimecourtscalamity/2016/11/08/ferry-captain-owner-indicted-thursday-deadly-accident/

 

-- © Copyright Khaosod English 2016-11-09

[Brer Fox]

Overloading and greed strikes again. Those poor pilgrims didn't have any idea what they were getting themselves into.

[SOTIRIOS]

....sure seems like they are taking their time about it.....

 

...and now forewarned.....???

 

...gotta wonder if they will even stick around now that they have been given ample 'notice'.....

[monkey4u]

I like the bit about the boat hitting a bern at " high speed "

Really that old wreck was a fast boat, as an anchor maybe

It was no Linda Lovelace

It failed to go down all the way 

[waldroj]

There is no disputing the culpability of the vessel's owner and skipper. 

 

However, one also had to wonder what will come of the other (equally appalling) issue identified in the final paragraph of the Khaosod English article.