The captain of a river cruise ship wasn't concentrating on his steering duties for at least five minutes as it collided and sank a much smaller sightseeing boat in Budapest last summer, Hungarian prosecutors said at the opening of his trial Wednesday.
Twenty-seven people, mostly tourists from South Korea, died in the May collision on the Danube River.
The Ukrainian captain, identified during the court session as Yuriy Chaplinsky, has been charged by prosecutors with negligent endangerment of water traffic leading
