The World - News from Dec. 30, 1986

The British tanker that sank off Iceland last week, killing the 12-man crew, had faulty radar and an inflatable life raft designed to accommodate only six people, a board of inquiry was told in Reykjavik, Iceland. Capt. Richard Cape told officials in Iceland by radio that there was a serious malfunction of the radar on the 2,600-ton Syneta shortly before the crew abandoned ship. The board was told that a 25-man inflatable raft had been replaced by a six-man raft when the Syneta’s registration was transferred this year from Sweden to Gibraltar.