WASHINGTON—Two U.S. Navy collisions that killed a total of 17 sailors this year were avoidable, according to a pair of reports on the accidents released Wednesday that cited failures in a number of areas, from steering and navigation to what officials describe as the culture aboard each of the ships. Two destroyers, the USS John McCain and the USS Fitzgerald, were involved in separate wrecks. The Fitzgerald collided with a commercial vessel in June, killing seven sailors; the McCain collided with a tanker in August, killing...

Source: Wall Street Journal November 01, 2017 13:59 UTC