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Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., the committee chairman, said Dishman’s experience and other horror stories recounted at the hearing point to a lack of oversight and accountability for passenger safety in the cruise industry. “In spite of the evidence that crimes, fires, mechanical failures, drownings and mishandled medical emergencies occur with disturbing regularity on cruise ships, the industry continues to deny that it has a problem,” Rockefeller said. Rockefeller introduced a bill last year to improve protection of passengers on cruise ships.
Taiwan plane crash kills 48 and injures 10 – CNN.com
Local media said Carvajal was arrested on Wednesday night and was due to be flown to the United States, where he is wanted on suspicion of drug crimes and helping Colombia’s Marxist FARC guerrillas. In an May 2013 indictment unsealed Thursday, Carvajal is accused of assisting Colombia’s North Valley Cartel, including the late Wilber Varela, alias “Jabon”, to ship cocaine from Venezuela between 2004 and 2008, while bribing to high-ranking military and law enforcement officials. According to local media, Venezuela had been trying to accredit Carvajal as consul to its diplomatic mission on Aruba, a former Dutch colony which now has autonomy but remains part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. “Venezuela has activated all diplomatic mechanisms to correct this grave violation of international law,” the statement said, calling on the Netherlands to free Carvajal or face a “deterioration” in relations.
Transportation officials arrived Thursday morning to investigate the disaster and assist in relief work. The cause of the crash remains unclear and authorities have identified 14 of the 48 killed, according to CNA. The flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder have been sent to Taipei, the agency reported. The plane, an ATR 72-500, carried 54 passengers and four crew members. The domestic flight, which took off from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, had been delayed because of conditions related to a typhoon, the airline said. Typhoon Matmo had struck Taiwan on Wednesday.
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