Italian Cruise Ship Sinking Captain

Captain held as cruise ship hits rock and sinks.

Italian cruise ship sinking captain. Construction and maiden voyage. Francesco Schettino Italian pronunciation. Italian prosecutors this morning are pushing hard to put the captain of the sinking Italian cruise ship the Costa Concordia on trial and behind bars building a case that his behavior was.

Born 14 November 1960 is an Italian former sea captain who commanded the cruise ship Costa Concordia when it struck an underwater rock and capsized with the deaths of 32 passengers and crew off the Italian island of Giglio on 13 January 2012. Several of the ships crew notably Capt. Pair pulled alive from sinking cruise ship.

Italian cruise ship captain ordered back to shipSky News17 Jan 12 1359 GMTTRT 0355A dramatic recording has been released apparently r. More than 4200 people were rescued though 32 people died. ROME -- Italian Captain Francesco Schettino was found guilty today for causing the fatal shipwreck of the Costa Concordia and sentenced to 16 years in prison according to a three-judge panel.

Francesco Schettino commander of the grounded Costa Concordia and Capt. In an unregulated industry which looks for a scapegoat the cruise line will focus on an irresponsible and renegade captain as the sole cause of the disaster which unfolded this weekend. Three people were confirmed to have died.

Captain Francesco Schettino was at the command of the cruise liner in January 2012 when it hit rocks off the coast of Tuscany and sank killing 32 people. Francesco Schettino captain of the Costa Concordia could be slapped with manslaughter charges after the cruise ship hit rocks near the island of Giglio on Friday authorities said. The captain of the ill-fated Costa Concordia cruise ship Francesco Schettino takes place for his trial on July 9 2013 in Grosseto.

If passenger accounts are correct Captain Schettino will long be considered a coward who abandoned his responsibilities and duties after wrecking the Concordia and killing scores of innocents in the process. The Italian captain went back onboard the wreck for the first time since the sinking of the cruise ship on January 13 2012 as part of his trial for manslaughter and abandoning ship. Captain Francesco Schettino was on the bridge when the ship hit.