Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/08/29
By: Chang Che-fon and Kay Liu

Kaohsiung, Aug. 29 (CNA) The Navy’s mistaken launch of a missile that killed a fisherman on July 1 was caused by officer negligence, the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office said Monday.

Prosecutors in Kaohsiung indicted three naval officers involved in the missile launch for negligence, citing their failure to follow protocol despite the training they had received on operating missile systems.

Kao Chia-chun (高嘉駿), a petty officer second class who fired a Hsiung Feng III anti-ship missile from a 500-ton Jin Jiang-class corvette docked at a naval base in Kaohsiung ahead of a scheduled exercise, was indicted under the Criminal Code for negligence in causing death and injury while on duty.

He was also charged under the Criminal Code of the Armed Forces for causing the loss of a missile.     [FULL  STORY]