There are now multiple investigations into the accident, from both the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard as well as the Japan’s Coast Guard and its Transport Safety Board. The investigators will be questioning the crew of the USS Fitzgerald, the Aegis guided missile destroyer that collided with the ACX Crystal, a Philippine-flagged container ship, just off the Izu peninsula. The 20 crew members on the container ship, chartered by the Japanese shipping company Nippon Yusen, were reported unharmed. Japanese investigators boarded the container ship over the weekend and interviewed the captain and crew, according to other local news reports. Three investigators for Japan’s Transport Safety Board had inspected the container ship inside and out, said spokeswoman Yuko Watanabe.

Source: Washington Post June 19, 2017 07:41 UTC