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Article: REPORT OF LEYTE GULF-THEODORE ROOSEVELT COLLISION CHAOS PREVAILED JUST BEFORE CRASH THE INVESTIGATION FOUND THE CAPTAINS OF BOTH SHIPS NEGLIGENT, SAYING POOR COMMUNICATION WAS A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR IN THE 1996 ACCIDENT.(FRONT)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- April 9, 1997
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Byline: JACK DORSEY, STAFF WRITER
Summoned from the innards of the cruiser Leyte Gulf, Capt. Coleman A. Landers bounded up three ladders and stepped onto his warship's bridge.
Outside, a moonless sky stretched black over 2-foot seas, the Atlantic's predawn calm stirred only by a light breeze. Landers couldn't see that, however: His view of the ocean was blocked.
``As I opened the door to the bridge, all I see is the flight deck of the carrier,'' he would later recall. ``Close. Very close.''
The carrier was the Norfolk-based Theodore Roosevelt, the mammoth centerpiece of a Navy battle group on maneuvers off the Outer Banks, and it was ...