Adjunct Professor Lawrence Brennan was quoted in a Washington Post article about the collisions of the USS Fitzgerald and the USS John S. McCain.
Lawrence Brennan, a retired Navy lawyer and law professor at Fordham University, said he sees similarities between the modern cases and the Nov. 22, 1975, collision of the guide-missile cruiser USS Belknap and the much larger aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy. In that case, eight service members were killed, 48 were injured and the Belknap suffered catastrophic damage. Jet fuel aboard the Kennedy poured onto the Belknap and ignited, burning down the smaller ship’s tower-like superstructure, according to a Navy investigation.
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