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Questions Linger About USS Fitzgerald Collision

Damage is seen on the guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald at its mother port in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo on June 18, 2017. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images)
Damage is seen on the guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald at its mother port in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo on June 18, 2017. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images)

There are multiple investigations underway into the collision between a container ship and the U.S. Navy destroyer Fitzgerald last Saturday morning off the coast of Japan. Seven sailors died in the accident, which flooded the compartments where they were sleeping.

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd talks about the collision with Bradley Peniston (@navybook), deputy editor at Defense One, who’s written two books about the Navy.

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