Francesco Schettino, the former cruise ship captain sentenced to 16 years for steering the Costa Concordia into rocks, was finally jailed Friday after his lengthy appeals process ran out. Schettino, 56, was convicted for shipwreck, manslaughter and abandoning ship after he steered too close to rocks on the Italian island of Giglio on Jan. The collision tore a hole in the hull of the ,ton ship, which limped on without power before going aground in shallow water close to the shore of Giglio.
Appearing bewildered and indecisive as the cruise ship slowly toppled onto its side, Schettino delayed lowering lifeboats then jumped into one himself, as 32 of the 4, passengers and crew on board died. Schettino was turned into both a laughingstock and a national embarrassment in Italy after a recording emerged of a coast guard official, Gregorio De Falco, urging him by radio to get back on board to look for passengers. I will create a lot of trouble for you. Get on board, damn it! Schettino later claimed he slipped and fell into the lifeboat.
Italian authorities are investigating whether the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster was caused by the crew sailing too close to shore to salute a friend. Costa Cruises said about 1, Italian passengers were onboard, as well as more than Germans, about French and about 1, crew members.
Firstpost Conversations 9 Months S. Latest News Francesco-schettino. Francesco Schettino Showing 1 of 13 from 13 results. World Costa Concordia captain sentenced to 16 years in prison The captain of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship was convicted of multiple charges of manslaughter and sentenced to 16 years in jail, Italian court officials said. The captain of the Costa Concordia told his manslaughter trial Wednesday that gravity not cowardice had been behind his decision to abandon ship with passengers and crew still aboard.
Costa Concordia captain Francesco Schettino told a court Tuesday that he was showing off when he steered the cruise ship onto rocks off the Italian island of Giglio. Furore after Concordia Captain Gives Seminar. A Rome university professor is facing a disciplinary hearing after inviting the captain of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner to lecture students on emergency procedures.
Ship horns blared on Sunday as the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner limped into the Italian port of Genoa to be scrapped two and a half years after it capsized in a tragedy that claimed 32 lives. Italian authorities today gave their final go-ahead for operations to lift and tow away the Costa Concordia cruise ship from its watery resting place to begin on Monday at GMT. Survivors of Italy's Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster began testifying for the first time yesterday at the trial of its captain Francesco Schettino as the liner's owner said it could be towed away in July.
Francesco Schettino had handed himself in to the Rebibbia prison in Rome after the verdict, his lawyer said. Schettino was sentenced in after a court found him guilty of manslaughter, causing a maritime accident and abandoning ship.
The cruise ship capsized after hitting rocks off the Tuscan island of Giglio.
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