Committee chair attacks government for Trident malfunction secrecy

“American sources reported on CNN say that the missile had to be diverted into the ocean to self-destruct, which suggests it may have been heading for land if it had to be diverted into the ocean, if that statement is technically correct,” he said. “That is consistent with what the Sunday Times had information on but could not then confirm, that the missile may have been heading in towards Florida. It does suggest, if that is true, that there was a fairly major telemetry failure [and] that the missile may have been not just uncertain in its flight but may have been genuinely going on the wrong track. But that, I stress, is only confirmed by other journalistic sources so far.”