Captain 'Plotted Fatal Sail Past For Days'
"The captain of the doomed Costa Concordia cruise ship had been plotting his fatal "sail past" of the island of Giglio for days, a court has heard.
The Italian court was also told that after steering the 114,000 tonne vessel into the island's rocky coast, Francesco Schettino failed to give clear instructions to officials after they discovered sea water flooding the engines through a tear in the hull.
Schettino is on trial facing charges of manslaughter, shipwreck and abandoning ship for his role in the capsizing of the Costa Concordia in January 2012 during which 32 passengers and crew drowned.
He was in court in Grosseto on Monday to hear statements from engine room officer Giovanni Iaccarino.
"Schettino wanted to sail very close to Giglio the week before," he said...."
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