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LYNCHBURG, Texas – A long phone call and a lack of lookouts are said to be the cause of the deadly 2024 collision in the Houston Ship Channel.<\/p>\n
2024 Houston Ship Channel collision <\/p>\n
The backstory:<\/p>\n
According to the National Transportation Safety Board<\/a>, a bulk carrier, the Yangze 7, and a towing vessel, the Miss Peggy, collided into one another while they were in the Houston Ship Channel near Lynchburg.<\/p>\n The Miss Peggy overturned and sank. Four of the five crewmembers were rescued with serious injuries, and a fifth member was found deceased.<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n The NTSB says the pilot directing the Yangze 7 was on a “non-operational phone call” for nearly 40 minutes with another pilot on another vessel.<\/p>\n The pilot reportedly ended the call around two minutes before the collision. Officials say the call distracted the pilot from seeing the Miss Peggy.<\/p>\n The Miss Peggy, rolling to starboard during collision with the Yangze 7 (Photo courtesy of the National Transportation Safety Board and the US Coast Guard) <\/p>\n It was also determined that neither vessel involved in the collision had a proper lookout while they were traveling.<\/p>\n “The captain of the Miss Peggy did not detect the Yangze 7 approaching from astern, and the bridge team of the Yangze 7 did not detect the Miss Peggy until the towboat was less than a ship’s length ahead,” the report reads. “Regulations and long-standing prudent maritime practice require a proper lookout, by all available means, for safe navigation.”<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n The NTSB made two recommendations regarding the alleged cell phone use.<\/p>\n It’s suggested that the US Coast Guard prohibits “nonoperational use” of personal devices by those who are directing a vessel.The American Pilots’ Association is advised to create rules regarding pilots’ personal devices and to encourage their member associations to adopt those rules as policy. <\/p>\n The Source: Report from the National Transportation Safety Board.<\/p>\n Harris County<\/a>Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LYNCHBURG, Texas – A long phone call and a lack of lookouts are said to be the cause…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[405,56,58,57,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-399988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-harris-county","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/vessel.jpg\")
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