A sea captain has been jailed for a year after crashing his ship into an unmanned gas platform while drunk, causing up to £10m damage. Zbigniew Krakowski, 56, from Poland, was nearly three times over the legal alcohol limit when the Jork hit the Echo platform off Norfolk on 4 August.
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about 19 years ago
Drunk ship crash captain jailed
A sea captain has been jailed for a year after crashing his ship into an unmanned gas platform while drunk, causing up to £10m damage. Zbigniew Krakowski, 56, from Poland, was nearly three times over the legal alcohol limit when the Jork hit the Echo platform off Norfolk on 4 August.
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