The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the grounding of the Panamanian tankship GRAND EAGLE was the loss of steerageway in a restricted channel when the main engine failed to start after the inadequately supported main diesel control-air tubing fractured due to vibration fatigue. Contributing to the grounding was the lack of an adequate control-air, low pressure alarm which would have alerted the engineers of a critical drop in control-air pressure and the failure of the engineers to immediately notify the master of their inability to start the main engine.
Marine Accident Report - Grounding of the Panamanian Tankship GRAND EAGLE in the Delaware River near Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, September 28, 1985
1987
22 pages
Report
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Englisch
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