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Duck Boat Tour's Final Minutes Chronicled in Preliminary NTSB Report

A timeline based on video and audio recovered from the vessel indicate tourists were given safety instructions about 10 minutes before the weather turned. The boat capsized and 17 people died.
An amphibious boat is seen at Ride The Ducks on July 20, in Branson, Mo. On Friday, the National Transportation Safety Board released a preliminary report of video captured in the minutes leading up to the deadly accident.

The National Transportation Safety Board has completed its initial review of a digital video recorder system recovered from the duck boat that capsized on a lake in Missouri earlier this month, killing 17 people.

In a statement issued on

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