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Giglio Giglio Porto 1 km Under pressure Costa Concordia sails from Civitavecchia and runs aground three hours later off the coast of Giglio. Coastguard issues warning after relatives of passengers phone authorities Costa Cruises confirms wreck but cites no cause. Media reports 69 people missing. Captain Francesco Schettino is detained by prosecutors Costa issues statement that ‘preliminary indications’ suggest ‘significant human error’ by Schettino. Schettino is reported to have gone close to shore to ‘salute’ a former captain Prosecutor Francesco Verusio says he is investigating captain for manslaughter, abandoning ship and causing a shipwreck Costa chief executive Pier Luigi Foschi apologises for wreck, defends company’s safety record, criticises captain but says crew acted like heroes. Captain made an ‘unapproved, unauthorised’ manoeuvre to change the programmed course, Foschi said. He adds a similar salute was approved by company in August on a similar course. The approved course that time was no closer than 500 metres, he says Audio emerges of Coastguard and Schettino arguing over why captain left the ship as passengers were still boarding lifeboats. Schettino appears in court, admits he sailed close to shore and is placed under house arrest. Missing and dead total 29 people Lloyd’s List, the industry’s newspaper and information service, shows the Costa Concordia came within 230 metres of the shore when it ‘saluted’ in August (see map). Costa issues statement that it would refund passengers for the cruise and expenses Costa files suits as an injured party in the shipwreck. The cruise ship remains in the sea, threatening the coast with 500,000 gallons of fuel Friday January 13 Saturday January 14 Sunday January 15 Monday January 16 Tuesday January 17 Wednesday January 18 Thursday January 19 Course on Aug 14, 2011 Course on Jan 13, 2012 (day of incident) Approximate incident location Costa Concordia’s previous salute Francesco Schettino, captain of the Costa Concordia Pier Luigi Foschi, Costa CEO Photos: AP, AFP ITALY Course on Jan 6, 2012 Porto San Stefano
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GiglioGiglio Porto
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Under pressure
Costa Concordia sails from Civitavecchia and runs aground three hours later off the coast of Giglio. Coastguard issues warning after relatives of passengers phone authorities
Costa Cruises confirms wreck but cites no cause. Media reports 69 people missing. Captain Francesco Schettino is detained by prosecutors
Costa issues statement that ‘preliminary indications’ suggest ‘significant human error’ by Schettino. Schettino is reported to have gone close to shore to ‘salute’ a former captain
Prosecutor Francesco Verusio says he is investigating captain for manslaughter, abandoning ship and causing a shipwreck
Costa chief executive Pier Luigi Foschi apologises for wreck, defends company’s safety record, criticises captain but says crew acted like heroes. Captain made an ‘unapproved, unauthorised’ manoeuvre to change the programmed course, Foschi said.
He adds a similar salute was approved by company in August on a similar course. The approved course that time was no closer than 500 metres, he says
Audio emerges of Coastguard and Schettino arguing over why captain left the ship as passengers were still boarding lifeboats. Schettino appears in court, admits he sailed close to shore and is placed under house arrest. Missing and dead total 29 people
Lloyd’s List, the industry’s newspaper and information service, shows the Costa Concordia came within 230 metres of the shore when it ‘saluted’ in August (see map).
Costa issues statement that it would refund passengers for the cruise and expenses
Costa files suits as an injured party in the shipwreck. The cruise ship remains in the sea, threatening the coast with 500,000 gallons of fuel
Friday January 13
Saturday January 14
Sunday January 15
Monday January 16
Tuesday January 17 Wednesday January 18
Thursday January 19
Course onAug 14, 2011
Course onJan 13, 2012(day of incident)
Approximateincidentlocation
Costa Concordia’s previous salute
Francesco Schettino, captain of the Costa Concordia
Pier Luigi Foschi, Costa CEO
Photos: AP, AFP
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Course onJan 6, 2012
Porto SanStefano
