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Unqualified staff first on long list of 'Empress' errors

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators say a long list of errors by captain and crew led to last year's grounding of the Empress of the North in Icy Strait, a main shipping route west of Juneau.John Ryan, KTOO - JuneauDownload Audio