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10.09.1989, Galatz, Romania

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cristi:
Today we reached 17 years from the biggest tragedy of the romanian river navigation. On 10.09.1989, romanian passenger ship   " Mogosoaia", sank arround 20 minutes after departure, on heavy fog, after colision with a convoy of pushed barges ( pusher " Petar Karaminchev"), under bulgarian flag. 239 of peoples died, just 17  were saved. Even the commander of bulgarian pusher was found guilty, the bulgarian company didn't pay any money until today. Unfortunatelly, in Romania, the accident was hidden by the comunist authorities from that period and by the authorities after the revolution, so, not many peoples know details about the accident. With every year, just a few peoples comemorate that event. Unfortunatelly, the romanian televisions forgot the accident, now all of them comemorate just the events from 11 september from USA ...

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