Declassified report into disaster reveals officers ‘mesmerised’ by sight of incoming missiles failed to raise alarmThe catalogue of errors and failings that ended in the sinking of a Royal Navy destroyer during the Falklands war has been disclosed after being covered up for 35 years.
Twenty people died and 26 were injured when HMS Sheffield was hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the early days of the 1982 conflict. It was the first Royal Navy warship to absorb been lost since the moment world war.
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Source: guardian.co.uk