On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 23:37:13 -0400, Larry W4CSC
wrote:

engsol wrote in
:

As bad as it was, the skipper did the right thing in my view. If he
had run into the ferry landing, a whole bunch of cars would have
mashed up to the front, possibly killing a few people....but maybe
not...the speed at impact hasn't been reported to my knowledge, which
should have pretty slow. Norm B



If the crew's labour union can convince the government it was the trouble
with the clutches the union engineers had reported before, heads might roll
and cost the company big money....

Apparently the thing went through a refit a few weeks ago, so yes,
someone's testicles will serve some anvil time, I suspect.