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1999 The Independent Fact Group
Reports
Download "Forgery to hide lack of seaworthiness" (379 K pdf, an excerpt)
"Forgery to hide lack of seaworthiness" (html, an excerpt)
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report "Urkundsförfalskning för att dölja
bristande sjövärdighet" (650 K pdf only
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M/V Estonia report 1999.06.14 (a translated excerpt)
A Port State Control was conducted on 27 September 1994 in Tallinn
before departure. A considerable number of deficiencies were
discovered on this occasion, 14 were noted in a report of which
5 were serious enough to detain the ship from departure. M/V
Estonia was not seaworthy. The Independent Fact Group shows that
the copy of the Port State Control protocol printed in the JAIC's
final report is a forgery. (Our full report
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"Analysis of IMO A 849 (2.0)" (html)
M/V Estonia report 1999.10.20
UN-resolution. When new evidence relating to any casualty is
presented, which may materially alter the determination of the
circumstances under which the marine casualty occurred, States
should reconsider their findings.
Download "Impossible
visor scenario" (550 K pdf, an
excerpt)
"Impossible visor scenario" (html, an excerpt)
Download the complete report "Impossible visor scenario" (1100 K pdf)
M/V Estonia report 2000.01.01
In this report, the Independent Fact Group shows that JAIC's
scenario regarding the loss of the visor, described in the final
report was impossible. The Independent Fact Group shows both
that it was impossible that the visor was lost in the way the
Commission concluded, and as a result of this, that the ramp
could never have been forced open by the visor. The forces in
a forward direction presented by the Commission are a mix up
of reaction forces and resultants from the wave impacts. The
Commission used the reaction forces in order to obtain forces
strong enough to break the visor loose.
Download "Recovery damage to the visor" (780 K pdf, an excerpt)
"Recovery damage to the visor" (html, an excerpt)
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M/V Estonia report 2000.05.01
In this report, the Independent Fact Group shows that damage
to the visor was caused by the visor recovery operations, and
that the Commission failed or did not care to identify damage
related to the recovery. As a consequence, the damage to the
visor has been consistently identified as caused by the "loss
of the visor", and was identified by the Commission as directly
related to the sinking of the MV Estonia. The Independent Fact
Group shows that it is probable that a considerable proportion
of the damages previously found to be a result of the loss of
the visor, was instead the result of the recovery operation.
"Non-evaluated damages and misleading conclusions" - (html)
The International MV Estonia Seminar,
Stockholm 29-30 May 2000
Paper NF-5 by the Independent
Fact Group prove that the JAIC made incorrect conclusions
regarding the mating boxes on the ramp, the preventer wires for
the ramp and the bottom plating on the visor. Further more JAIC
did not manage to identify nor evaluate the missing ramp railings
(cut off and found at the seabed), the severe damage to the bulbous
bow (port underside), and finally the hole in the hull.
M/V Estonia Visor riddle - (html)
The picture of the visor "standing" on the side
of the ship! - 2000.12.24
The Independent Fact Group Visor riddle ask for an explanation
of the mysterious facts presented below. This is something for
you to look in to, explain, judge or just accept. Our intention
with this findings and our limited analyze of the material is
not to hold it as conclusive evidence for any scenario. It is
to question whether or not it by coincidence was possible to
create pictures showing an identical object with the visor, standing
on the side of the ship after the accident.
M/V Estonia - the last voyage - (html)
M/V Estonia report "Partial
status report" - 2001.02.11
This report is what we have chosen to call a "partial status
report". In that respect the report is different from earlier
reports. The reason for the change of format is that the subject
is so extensive that it can not be presented in the one and same
report. This "partial status report - the last voyage"
focus on the first part of the voyage.
The aim with this report is to show that the route concluded by JAIC is incorrect. The JAIC route was used to support their scenario on how M/V Estonia could loose her visor. This report will reveal the sloppy investigation work performed by JAIC and further more call for a new investigation of the disaster.
M/V Estonia deformation riddle - (html)
What caused the damage, a plastic
deformation, on the starboard front bulkhead? - 2001.12.24
The Independent Fact Group ask for the explanation,
and present a number fo facts below. Our intention with this
riddle is not to prove conclusive evidence for any scenario.
We only want an answer to why the damage on the starboard side
of the front bulkhead is of a different type in relation
to the corresponding damage on the port side.
M/V Estonia analysis - damage on the forward bulkhead - (html)
Non conclusive damage explanation, damage on the forward
bulkhead of MV Estonia - 2002.12.24
This report imposes further "impossible" and unpleasant
facts. The Independent Fact Group show that JAIC's explanation
regarding damage above the starboard visor locking lug is incorrect.
Furthermore, when analysed, the damage can not have occurred
unless the starboard visor locking lug itself was detached from
the ship when the damage happend. There is just one "minor
problem", the visor locking lug is still attached to the
ship.
M/V Estonia - 10 years after the disaster.
September 28th 2004, ten years have passed since the loss of MV Estonia. The cause of the sinking has not been investigated - 2004.09.28
No hole in the hull below the water line?
M/V Estonia - Finding the Estonia bow visor
The written information sent between members in the JAIC tell a new story - 2006.04.03
The visor was found no later than the 9th of October 1994.
M/V Estonia analysis - activities at M/V Estonia between 1994 and 1996
Analysis of the forward bulkhead 1994 versus 1996 - 2006.04.04
In these analysis, the Independent Fact Group shows that the video films
taken by JAIC in 1994 and 1996 (oil recovering) on the wreck of M/V Estonia,
reveals, among other things, that extensive activities has been performed
on the wreck after December 1994 and before the summer of 1996.
M/V Estonia - What the divers saw at the car deck of MV Estonia
Analysis of a video film recorded by divers investigating the car deck
- 2006.04.09
In this report the Independent Fact Group for the first time show pictures
taken on the MV Estonia car deck, pictures that without doubt show that somebody
after the disaster when the ship was resting on the seabed, detonated explosives
inside the actuator room where the hydraulics for the ramp and visor was situated.
The pictures also show that the divers under the lead of the Swedish National
Maritime Administration, Johan Franson, has seen, filmed and investigated
the damage from explosions that penetrated several bulkheads at the car deck.
M/V Estonia - Non official videos from the wreck of MV Estonia can give new answers
Analysis of the circumstances regarding non official videos from the wreck
of MV Estonia - 2006.04.15
In this report the Independent Fact Group shows that there were an substantial
amount of non official filming made from the wreck of MV Estonia during 1996,
this in spite of the Agreement and law that states that the MV Estonia and
the (defined) surrounding area shall be regarded as a final place of rest
for victims of the disaster, and such shall be afforded appropriate respect.
Several videos were (and are) still not official and more than 20 hours of
film are still in Finnish custody. If analysed those recordings may give new
information and answers regarding the circumstances and events of the disaster
of the ship.
MV Estonia - Possible reasons behind
a cover up regarding the MV Estonia disaster
Analysis of the relation between possible investigation levels and influence
from different parties - 2006.04.25
In this report the Independent Fact Group for the first time officially
show the complex involvement from different parties that have no or little
interest in a new Independent Investigation of the MV Estonia disaster. Our
graphic analysis are based on the findings where it over the years have been
proved that the parties described have had a substantial reason to hide, cover
up or avoid the truth.