Danube cruise captain in court as floods prevent attempts to reach wreck

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The captain of a passenger cruiser that collided with a pleasure boat that capsi...

BUDAPEST - The captain of a passenger cruiser that collided with a pleasure boat that capsized on the Danube, killing South Korean tourists on board, appeared in court in Budapest on Saturday as flood waters prevented attempts to reach the wreck.

That would leave the wreckage very close to the surface, according to sonar imaging, and should make it easier to search it for bodies and prepare to remove it from the riverbed, something divers have been unable to do under the current hostile conditions. It is so far unclear what caused the accident, in which the 440-foot cruise ship hit and sank the smaller pleasure boat on Wednesday night.

“He committed no navigational error,” Gabor Elo said. “A lot of data is missing from the procedure here, barring us from declaring who is at fault and to what extent. Was it one captain or the other, were there external circumstances?”

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