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The latest on a deadly tourist boat accident in Missouri (all local weather):
19:40
A former president of the National Transportation Safety Board says that ducks are not designed for Commercial recreational use.
James Hall said Saturday that the design of the boat made ships from the era of World War II subject to the kind of accidents that led to the sinking of a duck on Thursday on a lake from Missouri. The sinking killed 17 people
Hall said the amphibious ship should be banned from such use. He says that he does not believe that there is a way to secure vehicles, especially in bad weather.
He says that canoes are an amphibious vehicle designed to attack beaches
. The US Coast Guard, but Hall says that the Coast Guard does not have enough personnel to provide the kind of strict oversight needed to ensure such operations are safe.
Hall was named president of the NTSB in 1993 by President Bill Clinton. He was president from 1994 to 2001
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19:15
The National Transportation Safety Board states that inspectors will attempt to learn how to "get the job done". information about a violent storm was transmitted to the crew of a tourist. boat capsized and killed 17 people on a lake in Missouri.
Earl Weener, a member of the NTSB, and a US Coast Guard representative spoke with reporters in Branson on Saturday. Agencies gather together how the duck sank Thursday during a storm on a local lake.
Weener said the meteorological information provided to the investigators showed that the winds were at 2 mph short of hurricane force at that time. He says the investigators hope that a VCR recovered from the boat will show what has happened.
Coast Guard Captain Scott Stoemer says the investigation will include the determination if operators have followed all safety rules. An incident report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol indicates that none of the 31 people on board were wearing a lifejacket.
Stoemer says the investigators hope to lift the sunken ship early next week.
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6: A woman from Indiana who survived a Missouri boat accident that killed nine members of her family says she remembers being in the # Icy water, thinking of his children and saying, "If they do not do it Lord, take me, I do not need to be here.
Tia Coleman spoke through her tears Saturday at the hospital where she is recovering in Branson. Three of her children were among the 17 people killed when a duck boat capsized during a storm on Thursday in a local lake.
Coleman says he did not become nervous until a large swell came on the side of the boat. She says that she does not know how she ended up in the water and maybe banged her head.
She says that the cold water led her to believe that she was at the bottom of the lake. She says that she "just let go" and that she floated to the top of the water, where she saw life rafts that had been thrown into the lake by people nearby. .
She says she does not know where her children were. "
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5:40 pm
An Indianapolis woman who is recovering in a Missouri hospital after losing nine limbs his family during a boating accident says that this is partly the reason for this excursion. was for his 9 year old son with autism.
Tia Coleman says her son Reece was "the happiest and sweetest boy" and was daily worth living. She says that he loved the water and that his family participated in the Ride the Ducks tour because it was something he liked to do.
Coleman's three children and six other relatives died on Thursday when the amphibian duck they were driving capsized storm on a lake in southwestern Missouri.
Investigators say 17 people died. That's more than the total number of deaths on Table Rock Lake over the last decade.
The National Transportation Safety Board and Other Agencies Investigate
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5:20 pm
The Guard says that a duck boat that sank on a lake in Missouri in an accident that killed 17 people was built during World War II and had an inspection in February.
The Kansas City Star reports that the Coast Guard -foot-long Stretch Duck 07 built in 1944.
Lt. Tasha Sadowicz works at the Coast Guard Regional Office in St. Louis. She says that a majority of the 22 Stetch ducks operating in Missouri were built in 1944 or 1945.
She said the duck that sank during a thunderstorm Thursday was inspected annually. Investigators say that none of the 31 people on board were wearing a lifejacket.
In 2016, an inspection revealed that the boat's fire detectors were unusable, but they were repaired later. And between January and April 2015, the Coast Guard prevented the boat from sailing
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17h
The Missouri State Highway patrol indicates that the 31 people aboard a tourist boat Missouri that sank were not wearing
The patrol released an incident report Saturday with details of Thursday's crash that killed 17 people. They were aboard a boat known as a duck that capsized at Table Rock Lake near Branson after the storms quickly moved into the area.
The incident report indicates that the amphibious vehicle was overthrown by a thunderstorm.
Among the dead are nine members of the same family
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4:20 pm
A long-time friend says that the couple of Indianapolis died with seven members of his family. on a Missouri tourist boat enjoyed traveling together after their retirement. They particularly liked the great family trips
Horace "Butch" Coleman, seventy years old, and Belinda Coleman, 69, who was killed by Toni, were killed on Thursday when the boat capsized in a storm near Branson. A brother, two of their adult children and four grandchildren also died.
Maxine Gilliam lives in the same neighborhood as the Colemans for more than 40 years. She says, "We were like a family" and her family is "devastated".
Gilliam says Butch Coleman worked for UPS before retiring and directed youth football for more than 40 years, a son of Glenn Coleman. The old man also killed on Thursday, took it when he aged too.
Toni Coleman was a talented seamstress who was like a sister. She said, "If any of us needed to talk, we would go to Dairy Queen and dump ourselves while we were eating ice cream."
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3:45 pm [19659002] A resident of Branson who says she's been riding a duck boat at Table Rock Lake about 10 times says she's never seen anyone wear a lifejacket during the path.
Kathy Ford said Saturday that she lived in Branson for 19 years and took her 4-year-old granddaughter on a duck boat ride. She said that the operators of the boats will show passengers where the lifejackets are, but she has never seen one.
Seventeen people were killed when a duck capsized on rough waters on Thursday. Ford said that Thursday's storm was one of the worst in Branson
Ford said she was working at nearby Silver Dollar City theme park and that she was leaving her job early in the year. storm. She said the park usually alerts staff when a storm approaches. When she left, she had not received any notification about bad weather and the park had closed no ride.
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15:15
Meteorologists say that they had been following the storm that hit southwest Missouri.
Almost eight hours before the boat carrying 31 people sank Thursday, the National Weather Service had issued a strong storm warning for the area, including the lake.
Meteorologist of the National Meteorological Service Eric Wise said Saturday that the most intense part of the line of storms began to form at 5:45 pm. Thursday south of Kansas City and extending south to Arkansas. He struck the Springfield area at 6:23 pm, uprooting trees and descending power lines. The boat fell shortly after 7 pm
KOLR-TV meteorologist Elisa Raffa in Springfield said in a telephone interview that her station was planning all-day threat of severe weather, including a Facebook event after the clock. 19659002] Raffa said, "My harm with this as a man and as a person and as a meteorologist is that this storm was planned."
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14:55
A birthday party held last week in Indianapolis will serve for some parents as a last living memory of Tia Coleman's family.
Coleman was the only one in his immediate family who survived a capsized canoe on Thursday on the rough waters of Table Rock Lake in southwestern Missouri. Her husband and three children were among the 17 killed.
Cousin Serica Franklin says she was holding Arya Coleman at the party, describing the one-year-old as "all smiles" and a happy child. His own son ran with Evan Coleman, 7, who was delighted to start the second year in a program for gifted kids. Reece Coleman, aged nine, is also drowned.
She described Glenn Coleman as a down-to-earth, laid-back man and a good father. She said that her cousin "always boasted about the quality of a husband she had."
Franklin said, "It's heartbreaking that's how I will remember them for the rest of my life."
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2: 20 pm
An Indianapolis woman whose nine family members died when a tourist boat sank said that crew members told passengers that the tour would begin on water because of a storm. Of the 17 people killed when a duck boat capsized Thursday on the rough waters of Table Rock Lake in southwestern Missouri. The accident occurred when winds approached the force of hurricanes.
Amphibious boat trips usually travel on land and water. Coleman told KOLR television channel that prior to the start of the tour, passengers had been told that they were going on the water first. She says when they went on the lake there were "big, huge waves."
The chairman of the company that owns the duck business said Friday that business is watching the weather.
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1:15 pm
According to the National Transportation Safety Board, it could run out for up to a year before completing a report on the causes of a amphibious duck. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that at a press conference held Friday near the scene of the accident, NTSB officials said they expected to be on the premises. places of the accident. Seventeen people, including five children, died when the boat capsized on rough water during a storm.
The area had been subjected to heavy thunderstorms for hours and a violent thunderstorm for more than 30 minutes before the ship sank [1 9659002] —
1 pm
A man with a service Private inspection said he told a company operating ducks on a lake in Missouri that two dozen of them had significant design flaws.
that he inspected two dozens of ducks for Ripley Entertainment in August 2017. He said that he did not know if the boats were staying at Branson
A duck boat operated by Ripley Entertainment has capsized Thursday night, killing 17 people.
Paul stated that the boats had engine exhaust ventilation systems at the front below the water line. He said that in difficult conditions, water could enter the engine and extinguish it.
Paul said the pumps used to remove the water from the hull would stop.
A Ripley spokesperson did not return
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12:45 pm
The Web site of a tourist company whose boat capsized southwest of Missouri indicates that the company will remain closed during the investigation.
Seventeen people, including five children, died on Thursday when an amphibious duck capsized on rough water during a storm. The National Transportation Safety Board and other agencies are investigating
The Ride the Ducks Branson website has been removed, with the exception of a page saying that the company will remain closed for support the survey and give time to families and the Branson community. cry. Jim Pattison Jr., president of Ripley Entertainment, owner of the company, said Friday that the boat 's captain had 16 years of experience and that the company was monitoring the weather conditions. The area had been subjected to a violent storm for hours and a severe storm warning for more than 30 minutes before the boat sank.
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12:30 pm
A man from Illinois says that he is 12 years old An older girl told him that his grandmother had saved her after the sinking of the Missouri tourist boat.
Todd Dennison tells the Kansas City Star that his mother, Leslie Dennison, 64, had taken his daughter on a special trip to Branson, Missouri. They had just arrived in town Thursday night when they were going on a duck trip
Authorities say that Leslie Dennison, of Sherrard City, in western Illinois, was among the 17 people who died at Table Rock Lake
. Dennison says her daughter told her that after the boat was submerged, she felt her grandmother below her, pushing her up. He says, "She said that her grandmother had saved her."
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12:20 pm
A couple from Missouri who recently celebrated her 45th wedding anniversary Part of the 17 victims of a tourist boat crash near Branson.
The accident on Thursday involved victims aged 1 to 76, including William Bright (65) and Higginsville (65). in Higginsville of Kansas City, Missouri, three years ago to be closer to a girl and their grandchildren. They grew up quickly to enjoy life in small towns and were active in the church and community.
Beck says the Brights had decided to stop taking an extended vacation. Branson was to be their last …
William Bright's latest public post on Facebook celebrated the wedding anniversary and how happy he was with his wife, three children and 16 grandchildren. Life, he wrote, had been "very amusing".
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11:30
A woman from Indiana whose nine family members were killed when a Missouri duck sank said the last thing she heard before a huge wave swept overhead was her sister-in-law screaming, "catch the baby!"
Tia Coleman and her 13-year-old nephew were the only survivors among the 11 members of family who left on the tourist boat Thursday night. Those who died were Coleman's husband and three children, aged 9, 7, and 1; his sister-in-law and 2-year-old nephew; her stepmother and stepfather and her husband's uncle
Tia Coleman told KOLR television channel that the family first went to the wrong company of ducks but exchanged his tickets for the 18 h 30. ride. She says that when the boat reached the water, there were "huge big waves". She says the passengers told the crew members: "It's a little too much."
Then a huge wave hit and the boat started sinking. Coleman says that she was alone in the water, praying to Jesus: "Please, keep me … so that I can go to my children. She says that she spotted a lifeboat and swam as fast as she could.
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11:00 am
A parent of a family from Indiana who lost nine limbs when sinking a duck in Missouri.
The Stone County Sheriff's Office identified members of the Indiana family as Angela Coleman, 45, Arya Coleman, 1, Belinda Coleman, 69, Ervin, 76. Coleman, Evan Coleman, 7, Glenn Coleman, 40, Horace Coleman, 70, Maxwell Coleman, 2, and Reece Coleman, 9.
Kim Thomas Sr. says, "Children are better than us, we have to live in this world, they have gone to the other side."
Thomas's children grew up with Coleman's children . He says the family has a deep faith in God.
He said that family members were upset to hear the boat captain tell passengers that they did not need to use lifejackets.
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10:35 am
A couple from the St. Louis area who died in the accident of a passenger boat near Branson apparently opted for the ride in canoe at the last minute. [19659002] Of the 17 people who died Thursday at Table Rock Lake, Rosemarie Hamann, 68, and William Asher, 69. Hamann celebrated his birthday earlier in the week. His final Facebook photo was a selfie with Asher. He pulls out his tongue, and smiles at his silliness.
Russ McKay, of St. Louis, met the couple four years ago when they offered help for a charity event that McKay was organizing. Since then, they have worked on annual charities for veterans.
McKay said that he spoke to Hamann almost daily, including during his trip to Branson. On Wednesday, she told McKay that she and Asher had just taken the Belle Branson paddle boat and that they were planning to go back there. But for some reason, they opted for the duck instead. McKay did not know why.
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10:15 am
We remember the driver of a Missouri duck who sank and killed 17 people as a longtime pastor in a church in Rhode Island. 19659002] WPRI-TV Reports Robert Williams was a pastor and founder of the Cathedral of Life in Providence, now called the King's Cathedral.
His stepson, Bishop Jeffery Williams, describes the 73-year-old as a "prince of a man, loving, kind and generous." He says the loss of the family is "incalculable".
A statement from the church indicates that Williams and his wife, Judith, helped found the church in 1999.
The station also reported that Williams was working for Rhode Island Public Transit Authority in as a building foreman. Agency spokesmen did not immediately comment on Saturday
Williams barred the boat when he capsized at Table Rock Lake after a strong storm on Thursday.
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10:00
The tourist boat crash at Table Rock Lake in Missouri has exceeded the number of deaths on the lake over the last decade.
Seventeen people, including five children, died Thursday when an amphibious canoe capsized on rough waters. National Transportation Safety Board and other agencies investigate
Army Corps of Engineers spokeswoman Laurie Driver says 16 drownings occurred on the lake between 2008 and Thursday
. 19659002] More than half of those killed in the Thursday crash were members of the same Indiana family. According to the Stone County Sheriff's Office, five of the dead came from Missouri, two from Arkansas and one from Illinois.
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8:45
Authorities released the names of 17 people were killed when a tourist boat sank on a lake in Branson, Missouri.
More than half of those killed were members of the same family of Indiana. According to the Stone County Sheriff's Office, five of the victims were from Missouri, two from Arkansas and one from Illinois
The Ride the Ducks Boat sank Thursday at Table Rock Lake in the south West of Missouri after a severe storm. The sheriff's department identified Indiana family members as Angela Coleman, 45, Arya Coleman, 1, Belinda Coleman, 69, Ervin Coleman, 76, Evan Coleman, 7, Glenn Coleman, 40 Horace Coleman, 70, Maxwell Coleman, 2, and Reece Coleman, 9.
The Missouri people were identified as William Asher, 69, Rosemarie Hamann, 68, Janice Bright, 63, William Bright, 65, and Bob Williams, 73.
Lance Smith, 15, and Steve Smith, 53, a native of Arkansas.
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