Two companies were fined today over a gangway accident that killed 16 people on the world’s largest ocean liner, the Queen Mary 2, before its maiden voyage.

Eight employees of the two companies involved in an accident that killed 15 people on the world’s largest ocean liner, the Queen Mary 2, were acquitted of manslaughter charges today.

A French court was due to rule today on who was responsible for an accident that killed 15 people on the world’s largest ocean liner, the Queen Mary 2, before it set off on its maiden voyage.

Sobbing family members bearing flowers went to a shipyard today to identify the bodies of 15 people who plunged to their deaths when a crowded gangway leading to the luxury liner Queen Mary 2 suddenly collapsed.