Daily News
07 Mar 2009
JOHN Joseph Cota, the pilot who directed the Cosco Busan into a bridge abutment in San Francisco Bay in November 2007, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to charges stemming from the mishap.
Cota, who had already been stripped of his master’s license by the Coast Guard, pleaded guilty to violating the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 and the Migratory Bird Treat Act, in the collision that ripped a hole in the box ship’s bunker tank, spilling 177 tonnes of fuel into the bay – a spill that killed thousands of birds ...
16 years ago
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