Washington Ripley Entertainment and Ride the Ducks Branson are to blame for the 2018 sinking of a duck boat that killed 17 people because managers did not relay a severe weather forecast to the vessel's captain, federal investigators concluded Tuesday.
The nearly two-year long National Transportation Safety Board probe found a"systemic problem with the company as a whole," an investigator said at a board meeting Tuesday. The board decided against specifically naming the captain of the Stretch Duck 7 in its findings of fault.
Woman loses 9 family members in boat accident 01:16Read MoreRipley Entertainment and the Coast Guard did not immediately to CNN requests for comment on the findings. The captain and company's general manager did not agree to interviews because of ongoing criminal investigations, the NTSB said.
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