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Ferry Captain May Lose Job Over His Refusal to Talk
By RANDY KENNEDY and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
City officials said yesterday that they were preparing to fire the captain of the Staten Island ferry that crashed into a pier last week, killing 10 passengers, because of his refusal to talk to investigators. The officials also said they would begin a series of new safety measures on the ferries today to ensure that no pilot is ever left alone at the wheel.
Iris Weinshall, the city's transportation commissioner, said her agency was "drawing up charges as we speak" to dismiss Capt. Michael J. Gansas, 38, whose whereabouts in the minutes before the boat crashed with an assistant at the wheel remain unclear. Captain Gansas did not arrive for an interview on Tuesday with the National Transportation Safety Board, leading the agency to issue a subpoena. The captain, citing medical problems, again refused to be interviewed yesterday, and did not appear at a scheduled interview on Staten Island with a lawyer from the city's Transportation Department.
Later, both Ms. Weinshall and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg angrily criticized the captain's conduct in the aftermath of the Oct. 15 crash.
"It's an outrage that somebody who can give us information to perhaps find out how we can improve service refuses to talk, and a person like that has no business working for this city," Mr. Bloomberg said.
Posted by P6 at October 22, 2003 10:17 PM | Trackback URL: http://www.prometheus6.org/mt/mt-tb.cgi/2080Hell, I got fired once just for having a bad attitude. I didn't even kill anyone. (At that point. Not that it was out of the question.)