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Title: Fitzgerald collision deserves close look, says retired admiral - "deliberate act"l
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Published: Jun 22, 2017
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Post Date: 2017-06-22 09:51:51 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Thursday, June 22, 2017
A retired U.S. Navy admiral says it's too early to dismiss the suggestion that the U.S. Fitzgerald was deliberately rammed by a merchant ship.
"Certainly one of the conclusions one has to consider that this was a purposeful act to ram the Fitzgerald," observes James "Ace" Lyons, who commanded the Pacific Fleet during the 1980s.
Lyons is watching as a U.S Coast Guard-led investigation unfolds after a Philippines-flagged container ship struck the Fitzgerald, killing seven sailors off the coast of Japan.
The U.S. Navy vessel, a guided missile destroyer, was hit by the ACX Crystal after it made a u-turn on June 17, Reuters reported.
Investigators have suggested the ACX Crystal did not immediately report the incident for nearly an hour.
Speaking to radio program "Sandy Rios in the Morning" on American Family Radio, Lyons says he doesn't understand how the merchant ship innocently hit the Fitzgerald.
"You just get out of there and get out of the way," he said. "This is troubling to me that more determined evasive action was not taken."
And that is why it appears deliberate, he says, citing the 180-degree u-turn that occurred before the collision.
"This is a deliberate act. These are not just happenstance," he claimed. "Certainly one of the conclusions one has to consider that this was a purposeful act to ram the Fitzgerald."
https://www.onenewsnow.com/national-security/2017/06/22/fitzgerald-collision-deserves-close-look-says-retired-admiral
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