Concordia captain blames helmsman for disaster
“I wanted to slow the ship down. But the helmsman did not follow my orders correctly,” Schettino told a court in Grosseto, where the trial against him for manslaughter and abandoning ship resumed after a summer recess.
“He steered in the wrong direction and we crashed,” he said, according to Italian media reports, accusing the helmsman, Jacob Rusli Bin, of making a mistake that caused a fatal delay in changing the ship’s course.
