USS John S. McCain control system was 'faulty': Report
The US Navy's guided missile destroyer USS John S. McCain reportedly had a faulty touch-screen control system that caused the collision two years ago.
A new report into the 2017 collision that killed 10 sailors and nearly sank a US warship argues the badly designed touch-screen control system caused the incident.
The USS McCain guided-missile destroyer collided with a Liberian-flagged oil tanker near the entrance to the Strait of Malacca in August 2017.
The 30,000-ton vessel rammed the McCain, collapsing a bulkhead where 12 sailors were asleep. The collision left 10 sailors dead. It was the US Navy’s worst accident at sea in decades.
The incident came nearly two months after seven US Navy sailors lost their lives on board the USS Fitzgerald, another guided-missile destroyer of the 7th Fleet, as the warship crashed into a container ship south of Japan.
Following the incidents, the Pentagon launched a probe.
Now a report from the investigative outfit ProPublica argues that much of the fault for the collision lies with the Integrated Bridge and Navigation System (IBNS), designed and installed by Northrop Grumman.
They cite a report by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which found that “the design of the John S McCain’s touch-screen steering and thrust control system increased the likelihood of the operator errors that led to the collision.”
Meanwhile, Northrop Grumman announced that there was nothing wrong with their touch-screen control system.
The Navy has just selected the company to install “physical throttles and simplified touch screens” on newly built destroyers and retrofit the 32 existing ones over the next seven years, according to ProPublica.
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