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New Duck Boat Crash Video Released Just Days Before Trial

5.2.2012 - Attorneys for the victims of Philadelphia's deadly Duck boat accident release new, dramatic video of the tragedy within the next hour. Their wrongful death case goes to trial on Monday....

New Video Of 2010 Deadly Duck Boat Accident Released

5.1.2012 - Attorneys for two Hungarian students who died when a tugboat and a barge slammed into the disabled duck boat on which they were riding have released new video....

New video released of fatal duck boat crash

5.3.2012 - One week before a civil trial is scheduled to begin in the fatal 2010 Ride the Ducks boat accident, plaintiffs’ lawyers released a dramatic video showing detailed images of the crash that killed two students....

Attorney says mate abandoned Duck Boat

5.2.2012 - An attorney for the families of two Hungarian tourists who died when a barge rammed a Ride the Ducks boat on the Delaware River two summers ago...

New Video of Philadelphia Fatal Duck Boat Crash Released

5.2.2012 - Newly released video of the 2010 deadly duck boat accident along the Delaware River that killed two passengers shows one of the ship’s crew members jumping off the vessel...

Fatal Duck Boat Video

5.2.2012 - Video via MSNBC

Fatal 2010 Philly duck boat crash in new video

5.2.2012 - Just days before a civil wrongful death lawsuit goes to federal court, attorneys for the parents of two Hungarian students killed when a barge slammed ...

New York Man Sentenced in Tragic Philadelphia "Duck Boat" Accident

11.2.2011 - Matthew R. Devlin, 35, of Catskill, New York, was sentenced Tuesday to one year and one day in prison for misconduct of a ship operator ...

Tugboat pilot gets year in jail for fatal 'duck boat' accident

11.2.2011 - The distracted tugboat pilot who crashed a barge into a sightseeing "duck boat," killing two tourists, was sentenced Tuesday ...

Tugboat mate can't duck blame in river crash

11.2.2011 - U.S. DISTRICT Judge Legrome D. Davis said he understood that the man standing before him had no previous criminal history and that, based on letters ...

The senseless deaths of our only children

7.7.2011 - It's been exactly a year since our children realized their dream of a lifetime by coming to Philadelphia from Hungary ...

Duck boat victims’ parents: ‘Why are tours still operating?’

7.7.2011 - Duck boats will be missing from the streets of Philadelphia today as the city marks one year since the deadly crash on the Delaware River ...

Inquirer Editorial: Distracted duck drivers

7.1.2011 - On a holiday weekend, Philadelphia can expect that many tourists will want to enjoy the duck-boat rides on the Delaware River. ...

Duck boat stall strands tourists in San Francisco Bay

6.29.2011 - A group of tourists hoping to get a unique view of San Francisco aboard a Ride The Ducks tour got more than they bargained for: a stalled boat in San Francisco Bay ...

Amphibious vehicle operations come under scrutiny after fatal accident

5.17.2011 - Late last year, an amphibious vehicle summit was held in New Orleans several months after a fatal accident in which a disabled duck boat ...

Duck boats return to Delaware River

4.22.2011 - As the driver of duck boat 31 notifies staff on a Delaware River pier that his tour bus is "requesting to splash," its passengers fall silent. ...

Duck Boats have work to do to lure back riders

4.20.2011 - Ewa Jasz of Northeast Philadelphia, shown with her family, says she has taken a duck boat tour in the past, but will not ride again because of safety concerns. ...

Duck boats to return to the Delaware, minus some quacking

4.20.2011 - Operating under a new safety plan, duck boats will return to the Delaware River on Thursday for the first time since the accident last summer that killed two tourists. ...

City gives OK for duck boats to tour again on the Delaware

4.20.2011 - Ride the Ducks tours will return to the Delaware River tomorrow with a tinkered route and new safety standards, nine months after it suspended operations because of a fatal accident in the waterway ...

Duck boats returning to Philly after fatal crash

4.19.2011 - Duck boat tours will return to the Delaware River in Philadelphia on Thursday, more than nine months after a collision between a tourist boat and a barge killed two exchange students. ...

Duck-boat rescuer's national ceremony is Friday

3.25.2011 - The Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation will honor Philadelphia Police Detective Timothy Brooks ...

Officials say shorter duck-boat route meets captain's concerns

3.20.2011 - The captain at the helm of the duck boat in July's fatal collision on the Delaware River had some advice ready ...

Tugboat crewman was on cell phone when barge crashed into Philly duck boat

3.8.2011 - The first mate in charge of the Caribbean Sea tugboat was on his cell phone when the barge he was pushing up the Delaware River plowed into an amphibious vessel ...

Cell Phone Distraction Before Ducks Crash?

The NTSB has found that the first mate of the tug boat that was pushing a barge that crashed into a disbaled Ride the Ducks boat was on his cell phone...

Tug's mate on phone at time of deadly duck accident, NTSB report says

3.8.2011 - The tugboat mate in last summer's deadly duck-boat accident was talking to family members on his cell phone about his son's life-threatening emergency moments before the July 7 crash...

NTSB: Tug pilot in duck boat crash was on cell

3.7.2011 - The mate piloting a tug boat involved in the deadly collision of a tourist boat and a barge last summer was ...

Tugboat mate in fatal duck boat crash was on cell phone

3.7.2011 - The tour boat company and lawyers for two tourists killed last summer in a crash on the Delaware River in Philadelphia are responding to new information on the accident ...

Documents on deadly duck boat accident released

The National Transportation Safety Board released documents from investigators about the deadly duck boat crash in Philadelphia...

NTSB Reveals New Details Of Its Probe Into Fatal Duck Boat Crash On Delaware River

The National Transportation Safety Board today opened up to the public its docket of information related to last summer’s fatal duck boat accident on the Delaware River...

NTSB: Tug's Mate on Cell Phone in Duck Boat Crash

3.5.2011 - A new government report on last summer's fatal duck boat crash in Philadelphia reveals the mate piloting a tugboat involved in the crash ...

U.S. to release data on fatal Delaware River duck-boat accident

3.5.2011 - The National Transportation Safety Board on Monday will release documents and photographs from its ongoing investigation into ...

Scaled-back Duck Boat plan for Delaware River

2.1.2011 - The Duck Boats are trying to get back onto the Delaware River in Philadelphia, with an amended route and new safety measures ...

Inquirer Editorial : Still quacking

1.28.2011 - The city has finally taken the correct action by rejecting a proposal to allow amphibious boat tours on the Schuylkill ...

Philadelphia's duck boats may return to the Delaware

1.25.2011 - Robert Mongeluzzi, a lawyer for the families of the two who died in the accident, said he believed the risk of collision was higher on the Delaware ...

Philly says 'no' to Ride the Ducks on Schuylkill

1.25.2011 - The operator of a duck boat that sank in a July collision on the Delaware River lost its bid ...

Philly Says No to Ride the Ducks' Return

1.25.2011 - Ride the Ducks was the only amphibious boat tour company trying to bring duck boats back to Philadelphia streets and waterways ...

Should the duck boats be on the Schuylkill - at all?

1.21.2011 - The people who run the Ride the Ducks tours may be quackers, but they're not stupid. Recognizing the public ...

Philadelphia keeping players in duck boat decision out of public eye

1.10.2011 - Sometime this month, a group of city officials will advise Mayor Nutter on whether to let Ride the Ducks start operating boats on the Schuylkill ...

Inquirer Editorial: Duck plan doesn't fly

12.22.2010 - Public opposition to amphibious boat tours on the Schuylkill should persuade the Nutter administration to abandon the idea ...

US Rep. Bob Brady calls duck vehicles unsafe

12.15.2010 - The National Transportation Safety Board is still investigating the cause of the July 7 duck boat accident that killed two Hungarian passengers, but Congressman Bob Brady already has said the vehicles are unsafe ...

Residents Dislike Ducks

12.15.2010 - About 100 people who came to a meeting at the Free Library Wednesday night all had one thing to say: They don't want duck boats on the Schuylkill. ...

Duck Boat Safety Still Questioned

10.4.2010 - Investigators issued a preliminary report last month, confirming that the barge that ran over the duck boat did not heed warning calls in the moments before ...

Families of duck boat victims oppose resumption of service

10.2.2010 - Ride The Ducks and the City of Philadelphia announced Friday that the amphibious boat tours will resume in March 2011 using the Schuylkill River for the ...

Ducks boats to move from the Delaware to the Schuylkill in March

10.2.2010 - The duck boat capsized and left dozens of passengers in the water fighting for their lives. Two Hungarian tourists, Dora Schwendtner, 16, and Szabolcs Prem ...

Duck boat's captain sues city and tug operator

10.1.2010 -‎ The captain of the duck boat involved in a July 7 accident that killed two young tourists has sued the City ofPhiladelphia and tugboat ...

Duck boat captain sues tug, Philly in deadly crash

9.30.2010‎ - A tour boat captain has sued the city of Philadelphia and operators of a tugboat that pushed a huge city barge into his amphibious vessel ...

Duckboat First Responders Honored at Reading Terminal

9.23.2010 - First responders who helped rescue passengers after this summer’s duck boat accident were being honored this morning in center city...

NTSB: Duck boat calls unanswered before collision

9.10.2010 - An idled tour boat and nearby vessels made repeated, unanswered calls to the tugboat guiding the massive barge that hit and sank the smaller craft in the Delaware River...

NTSB: Duck boat calls went unanswered

9.10.2010 - A preliminary NTSB report says an idled Duck Boat and nearby vessels made repeated calls to the tugboat guiding a massive barge that sunk the craft in the Delaware River...

NTSB report out on duck boat accident

9.10.2010 - The National Transportation Safety Board has issued it's preliminary report in July's fatal duck boat accident on the Delaware River...

NTSB Report Recounts Unheeded Calls by Disabled Duck Boat

9.10.2010 - The NTSB today released its preliminary report on the “duck boat” accident last July in the Delaware River that killed two Hungarian tourists...

Parents of Duck Boat Victims See Pa. Crash Site

8.18.2010 - Thirty-five others aboard the so-called duck boat survived. The National Transportation and Safety Board is preparing a preliminary report that could be ...

Victims' Parents Calling for Duck Boat Regulations

8.18.2010 - A memorial service took a macabre turn Tuesday for the families of two Hungarian students who died in a duck boat accident here last month. The victims' parents placed wreaths in the Delaware River and on shore at Penn's Landing...

Parents of Duck Boat Victims Talk

8.17.2010 - Parents of the two Hungarian students killed in the duck boat crash last month want answers and they have made their...

Parents Of Duck Boat Victims See Crash Site

8.17.2010 - The parents of two Hungarian students killed last month when an amphibious tour boat crashed into another vessel visited the Philadelphia site Tuesday and were stunned to see...

Duck Boat Victims' Parents in Philly

8.17.2010 - The parents of two Hungarian students killed in a Duck Boat accident in Philadelphia visited the accident site on Tuesday. Attorney Robert Mongeluzzi also ...

Emotional Plea From Families of Dead Duck Boat Tourists

8.17.2010 - Families of Hungarian tourists, killed when the Ride the Ducks boat they were in was struck by a barge last month, were in Philly to see where their loved ones died and to make a plea for the end of duck boats.

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Hungarian Parents of Duck Boat Victims Arrive in Phila.

8.18.2010 - The families of the two Hungarian student-tourists who were killed in last month’s duck boat disaster along the Delaware River are in Philadelphia...

WHYY News

8.18.2010 - The families of two young Hungarians who died in the Delaware River Duck Boat accident are in Philadelphia to file legal paperwork at the Register of Wills Office and to see where their children died. Aniko Takacs, Dora Schwendtner's mother, said the emotional moment

Families of Philly duck boat victims file lawsuit

8.15.2010 - The parents of two Hungarian students killed in a duck boat accident on the Delaware River last month filed a wrongful death lawsuit Tuesday against the tour operator, the city and others.

Ga. company sued over duck boat crash

8.10.2010 - Two Hungarian tourists died July 7 when a disabled duck boat was rammed and sunk by a 290-foot barge being powered by a tugboat. The complaint alleges the ...

First lawsuits filed in duck boat tragedy

8.10.2010 - As expected, the first lawsuits have been filed in connection with last month's fatal duck boat accident on the Delaware River. KYW's John McDevitt reports...

Duck boat victims' families file wrongful death suit

8.10.2010 - Lawyers for the families of two Hungarian tourists who died in a duck boat accident last month filed a lawsuit today against the duck ...

Families of Philly duck boat victims file lawsuit

8.10.2010 - The families of two Hungarian tourists killed in a duck boat accident on the Delaware River last month have filed a wrongful death lawsuit in ...

Victims' attorneys urge city to end duck-boats on river

8.10.2010 - Attorneys for the two Hungarian tourists killed in last month's duck-boat accident on the Delaware River have written to Mayor Nutter and ...

Recalling Arkansas Duck-boat tragedy from 1999, and the NTSB report

7.23.2010 - The housewife clicked through the TV channels, but one news report prompted her to stop. It chilled her soul. Laura Maron - a survivor of ...

Attorneys Want Duck Boats Banned

8.1.2010 - The attorneys representing the families of two Hungarian tourists killed in the Ride the Ducks accident say the military era boats should not be allowed back on the Delaware River.

Duck Boats Are "Death Traps:" Attorneys

Attorneys representing the families of two Hungarian tourists killed when a Ride the Ducks boat collided with a barge on the Delaware River want to see the boats dry docked for good.

Attorneys: Philly should bar duck boats as unsafe

8.1.2010 - Lawyers for two Hungarian citizens killed in a duck boat accident on a river in Philadelphia are calling for the city and Coast Guard to bar the vessels from returning to the water — which the company says it hopes to do this season.

Duck boat victims' lawyer wants the vessels grounded

Lawyers for two Hungarian tourists killed in the Delaware River duck-boat accident launched a public relations effort Friday aimed at getting the city and Coast Guard to prevent the ducks from returning to the water

Both duckboat victims found

They touched down at JFK Airport about 2 p.m. on July 2 to begin their "American adventure," eager to learn all they could about our culture before...