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Federal prosecutors say charges have been filed against the captain of a Missouri duck boat that sank killing 17 people, including nine from one family.
The legal definition of what constitutes a lake was the focus of a court hearing concerning a tourist boat accident in Missouri that killed 17 people.
The Missouri attorney general filed a petition Friday urging the court to Branson Duck Vehicles, LLC and Ripley Entertainment, Inc. to stop operating duck boats in the state.
The National Transportation Safety Board released its preliminary report on the investigation into the fatal duck boat sinking on Table Rock Lake near Branson July 19.
A certificate of inspection for the Missouri tourist boat that sank last month, killing 17 people, shows that it was on Table Rock Lake at a time when the wind speed far exceeded allowable limits.
Fifty-three members of an Indiana family who lost nine relatives when a duck boat sank in Missouri described their pain and unfathomable loss Tuesday while calling for a ban on the amphibious tourist boats that their attorney likened to "coffins and death traps."
A wrongful death lawsuit seeking $100 million in damages has been filed against the owners and operators of the duck boat that sank last week on Table Rock Lake, killing 17 people.
Crews worked to recover the duck boat that sunk to the bottom of Table Rock Lake, killing 17. CBS is reporting the Missouri Highway Patrol is looking into possible criminal negligence.
It only took about an hour for the Coast Guard to retrieve the duck boat that capsized and sank late last week in Branson, killing 17 people.
These are the faces of some of the 17 men, women and children who lost their lives after the duck boat crash on Table Rock Lake.
Investigators say 16 passengers and the driver are dead after a duck boat capsized on a Branson Lake. A couple from Chelsea who is vacationing in Branson watched the terrible scene unfold on Table Rock Lake.
Seventeen people are dead after a Branson tour boat capsized in a summer storm. Chelsea resident Telena Cooper was on the Branson Belle and witnessed the tragedy.
