Disaster ferry pilot 'may have fallen asleep'
A Staten Island ferry pilot may have fallen asleep just before his ship slammed into a pier killing 10 people and injuring at least 42 others in New York harbour, police said today.
The pilot, identified by a source as Richard Smith, ran away from the scene so quickly that he left behind his gear and his keys, then broke into his house where he slit his wrists and shot himself with a pellet gun.
