The Straits Times
Date: October 1, 2017

TAIPEI (AFP) – Three naval personnel have been jailed for up to two years for mistakenly launching a missile towards China that killed one person and triggered a stern response from Beijing last year.

They were convicted of causing death by negligence while on duty over the misfiring of the Hsiung-feng III (Brave Wind) supersonic missile, the district court in the southern city of Kaohsiung announced over the weekend.

The missile, dubbed “Aircraft Carrier Killer”, flew about 75km before hitting a trawler on July 1, 2016, in waters off Penghu, a Taiwanese-administered island group in the Taiwan Strait.    [FULL  STORY]