Francesco Schettino, the Italian captain who steered the cruise ship Costa Concordia onto rocks in Italy in 2012 with the loss of 32 lives, was sentenced Wednesday to just over 16 years in prison.

GROSSETO, Italy - The captain of the capsized Costa Concordia luxury liner was handed a prison sentence of 16 years and one month on Wednesday after being convicted of multiple counts of ...

The captain of the Costa Concordia did not “fall” into a lifeboat after the ship hit rocks, as he contends, a crew member testified. Instead, Francesco Schettino “jumped into the lifeboat ...

A figure of Costa Concordia cruise ship captain Francesco Schettino is displayed outside a shop on San Gregorio Armeno street in Naples on Feb. 7. X90010.

An Italian cruise ship captain will serve 16 years in prison for a shipwreck that killed 32 people, judges ruled on Wednesday. ... Costa Concordia captain sentenced to 16 years… Share this: ...

The crash cruise ship Costa Concordia on January 17. (AFP/Getty Images)He was a second disaster waiting to happen. Captain Francesco Schettino, who helmed the doomed Costa Concordia before it crash… ...

The search for 21 people still missing in the Costa Concordia shipwreck resumed Thursday amid reports the captain was seen dining with a mystery woman -- who may have been onboard illegally ...

Costa Concordia Captain Blames Crash On Helmsman : The Two-Way Francesco Schettino, on trial for manslaughter and abandoning his passengers and crew, says the man steering the cruise liner turned ...

A Costa Concordia official has testified that the cruise ship's captain was distracted and talking on the telephone when the liner approached a Tuscan island shortly before it crashed.

The captain of the Costa Concordia did not “fall” into a lifeboat after the ship hit rocks, as he contends, a crew member testified. Instead, Francesco Schettino “jumped into the lifeboat ...

A court convicted the Costa Concordia’s commander of the manslaughter deaths of 32 people in the cruise liner’s capsizing off the Italian coast and sentenced him Wednesday to some 16 years in ...