Rescued ferry passengers add to criticism of crew
- 9 years ago
Emotional and joyful scenes as exhausted passengers from the Norman Atlantic ferry wreck arrive back home in Athens, Greece after a four day ordeal.
Tearful family members jump into their arms.
(SOUNDBITE)(Greek) RESCUED PASSENGER, LEFTERIS ARABATZIS, SAYING:
"(I feel) lucky, blessed, it feels wonderful. But there we were left helpless, when the accident happened."
Passengers say the ferry's crew was nowhere to be found when the blaze broke out.
(SOUNDBITE) (Greek) RESCUED PASSENGER, HARIS VOUGIOUKOS, SAYING:
"We were the ones who gave the alert, no alarm was sounded, we heard the noises and saw the flames and came outside. And we were the ones who woke up the people. The crew were nowhere, neither was the captain."
(SOUNDBITE)(Greek) RESCUED PASSENGER, GIORGOS TOUTOULOS, SAYING:
"There was no alarm, nothing, we woke up from the fumes, the flames and the sounds the cars made when they were burning."
More than 400 people were rescued
Tearful family members jump into their arms.
(SOUNDBITE)(Greek) RESCUED PASSENGER, LEFTERIS ARABATZIS, SAYING:
"(I feel) lucky, blessed, it feels wonderful. But there we were left helpless, when the accident happened."
Passengers say the ferry's crew was nowhere to be found when the blaze broke out.
(SOUNDBITE) (Greek) RESCUED PASSENGER, HARIS VOUGIOUKOS, SAYING:
"We were the ones who gave the alert, no alarm was sounded, we heard the noises and saw the flames and came outside. And we were the ones who woke up the people. The crew were nowhere, neither was the captain."
(SOUNDBITE)(Greek) RESCUED PASSENGER, GIORGOS TOUTOULOS, SAYING:
"There was no alarm, nothing, we woke up from the fumes, the flames and the sounds the cars made when they were burning."
More than 400 people were rescued