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17 dead after duck boat capsizes on Table Rock Lake
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NEAR BRANSON, Mo. -- The Stone County Sheriff confirms eight fatalities involved in a duck boat capsizing on Table Rock Lake Thursday. Emergency crews responded to the incident shortly after 7 p.m. after a severe line of thunderstorms rolled through the area. Sheriff Doug Rader reports the boat had 31 people on board. He tells KY3 News four of those have been transported to a hospital. Some of the 31 on board include children. Divers are on the scene searching for more possible victims. The sheriff says he does not know how many on the boat are missing. The sheriff is asking for any family missing someone to go to Branson City Hall. It remains a rescue and recovery mission. http://www.ky3.com/content/news/Emer...488679201.html Last edited by Dartgod; 07-20-2018 at 11:53 AM.. Reason: updated the number of casualties |
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11-10-2018, 01:04 PM | #393 | |
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11-10-2018, 02:04 PM | #394 |
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01-11-2021, 07:49 AM | #395 |
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New Duck Boats to hit Branson spring of 2021. New owners say new boat unsinkable. Somehow this sounds like Titanic all over again.
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01-11-2021, 12:46 PM | #396 |
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07-16-2021, 09:05 PM | #397 |
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63 felony charges filed in duck boat accident on Missouri lake that killed 17
A local prosecutor on Friday filed a total of 63 felony criminal charges against three employees over a July 2018 tourist boat accident on a Missouri lake that killed 17 people. The charges were filed in Stone County against the captain, the general manager and the manager on duty the day of the accident for the Ride the Ducks attraction on Table Rock Lake near the tourist mecca of Branson. The charges were announced by County Prosecuting Attorney Matt Selby and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt. The charges against captain Kenneth Scott McKee, of Verona, general manager Curtis Lanham, of Galena, and manager on duty Charles Baltzell, of Kirbyville, came seven months after a federal judge dismissed charges filed by federal prosecutors, concluding that they did not have jurisdiction. McKee faces 29 charges, including 17 charges of first-degree involuntary manslaughter. An affidavit from a Missouri Highway Patrol sergeant accuses him of failing to exercise his duties as a licensed captain by taking his amphibious vehicle onto the lake during a thunderstorm. Baltzell and Lanham face 17 charges each of first-degree involuntary manslaughter. They are accused of failing to communicate weather conditions and failing to cease operations during a severe thunderstorm warning. The dead included nine members of one family from Indianapolis. Other victims were from Missouri, Illinois and Arkansas. |
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07-16-2021, 11:30 PM | #398 |
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Many time I've been just across the lake from where this happened. I've raced a storm back to our dock just in the nick of time in the pontoon we had when I was in my 20's/30's. Those storms could roll up on you in a moments notice back in the day but in more modern times this storm should have been scene coming. Just a terrible **** up by the people in charge.
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07-17-2021, 06:04 AM | #399 |
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I find it interesting that the charges were filed in the little Stone County offices instead of Taney County where Branson is located.
Maybe the part of the lake the tragedy happened was in Stone County. |
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07-17-2021, 06:22 AM | #400 |
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07-17-2021, 07:00 AM | #401 |
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Good point, probably so, but the Duck Boat ride is in Branson, thus the question.
Just a curiosity on my part though, as Galena is a long way from the lake and the ride. Hoping not to get called in for jury duty on this as it may take a while. |
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07-17-2021, 04:42 PM | #402 |
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Has no charges been file on the Owners of Ride the Duck that flaunted safety issues that needed to be corrected?
Of course, they have no culpability whatsoever. |
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07-17-2021, 05:26 PM | #403 |
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Those microbursts you guys have down there on the lakes
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