NTSB report: poor pilot performance in 1995 Star Princess grounding

On 22 June 1995, the passenger ship Star Princess with 1,568 passengers and 639 crew members ran around in Alaska while under a pilot's direction. The National Transport Safety Board determined that the probable cause of the accident was " the pilot’s poor performance, which may have been exacerbated by chronic fatigue‘caused by sleep apnea." (349.4 KiB, PDF, 8 pages)

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