Costa CEO: Captain misled the crew

The captain who grounded the Costa Concordia off the Tuscan coast with 4,200 people on board did not relay correct information either to the company or crew after the ship hit rocks, the cruise ship owner’s boss said as the search resumed for 21 missing passengers.

Chief executive Pierluigi Foschi told Italian state TV that the company spoke to the captain at 10.05pm, some 20 minutes after the ship ran aground on January 13, but could not offer proper assistance because the captain’s description “did not correspond to the truth”.