Schettino was captain of the Concordia when it ran aground off the coast of Italy three years ago, killing 32 people. Costa Concordia captain Francesco Schettino was sentenced to 16 years in prison ...

An Italian court has placed Francesco Schettino, Costa Concordia’s captain and an 11-year Costa Cruises officer, under house arrest. He is now confined to his home in Naples, Italy. Schettino is ...

GROSSETO, Italy (AP) — A court convicted the Costa Concordia's commander of the manslaughter deaths of 32 people in the cruise liner's capsizing off the Italian coast and sentenced him Wednesday to ...

The captain goes down with their ship. That's a maritime tradition that means that when something goes wrong at sea, the captain stays at their post until as many people as possible get saved. When ...

The fate of the captain of the doomed Costa Concordia cruise liner hung in the balance Friday as his defence lawyers prepared to sum up and Italys highest court readied its ruling. The Costa Concordia ...

GROSSETO, Italy (Reuters) - The Italian captain of the Costa Concordia, Francesco Schettino, took the witness stand in a pre-trial hearing on Thursday, refusing to accept sole blame for sinking the ...

GIGLIO, Italy (AP) — Italy has paid tribute to the 32 victims of the Costa Concordia shipwreck on the 10th anniversary of the disaster. A daylong commemoration on the Tuscan island of Giglio is ...

Ten years ago the Costa Concordia ran aground off the Tuscan island of Giglio, killing 32 people and entwining the lives of others forever. By Gaia Pianigiani Even as Covid-19 sickened passengers, the ...

GROSSETO, Italy, March 3 (Reuters) - The captain of the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner was not wearing his glasses on the evening of the accident and asked his first officer to check the radar ...

At the trial of Costa Concordia captain Francesco Schettino, his lover testified on Tuesday that they were on the bridge together when the ship ran aground. Italian media have speculated whether the ...

The captain of the Costa Concordia says the helmsman of the ill-fated cruise liner failed to properly execute a last-minute corrective maneuver that could have kept the massive vessel off a rocky ...

The captain of the Costa Concordia, which capsized two years ago, killing 32 people and causing a salvage headache off the coast of Italy, visited the wreckage for the first time since the crash.