Cosco Busan Investigators Point To Problems With Coast Guard Medical Evaluations

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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) blames the Cosco Busan disaster on a wide-ranging lack of attention to safety by the bar pilot and ship operator and oversight failures by the U.S. Coast Guard.rnIn a report issued in February, the NTSB said the pilot never should have been on the job guiding a shiprnin fog while taking several medications that impair judgment. The investigators said that pilot and master never underwent a proper exchange and that ship operator Fleet Management Ltd. failed to train its crew properly.rnThe Coast Guards medical reviewers should not have allowed the pilot even to keep his license,rnthe NTSB said.rn"There was a lack of competence in so many areas that this accident seemed almost inevitable," said Mark Rosenker, the NTSB's acting chairman.