BY THE NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
Vice Chairman
Member
James B. King, Chairman, and Patricia A. Goldman, Member, did not participate.
Francis H. McAdams, Member, filed the following concurring and dissenting statement.
I do not agree with the majority opinion wherein it is concluded that contributing to the cause of this accident was the failure of the pilot of the Seadaniel to more closely observe the helmsman's response to rudder orders.
The pilot was immediately aware that the helmsman had not followed his order of hard right rudder when he saw that the rudder angle indicator was pointing hard left. At this point he again ordered hard right rudder, accompanied by a hand signal, neither of which was obeyed by the helmsman.
In my opinion the pilot took immediate reasonable and prudent action to avoid the collision, but to no avail.
June 10, 1981
