MI couple home after Italian shipwreck

DETROIT (WOOD) - A Michigan couple has returned home after surviving the Italian cruise shipwreck last week.

"It was complete chaos, and it was every man for himself," Kathy Ledtke told WDIV. "Nobody knew where to go. Nobody was in charge."

She and her husband, Steve, live in Fort Gratiot, north of Port Huron.

They were aboard the Costa Concordia for a seven-day cruise when it ran aground near the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy on Friday night.

As of Tuesday morning, 11 people are confirmed dead and prosecutors are investigating the ship's captain for manslaughter, abandoning ship and causing a shipwreck, the Associated Press reports. Twenty-four people are unaccounted.

The ship's owner says the captain, Francesco Schettino, caused the crash by deviating from the authorized course.

The Ledtkes told WDIV they were in a restaurant having dinner at the time, and among 4,000 others trapped inside the sinking ship.

"It should have been an enjoyable, wonderful trip and this was just a bad choice, bad decision for that captain," Kathy Ledtke told WDIV at a Michigan airport.

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