BC Ferries has lost part of a lawsuit over a 2005 crash that saw a passenger and car ferry plow into several boats and a marina west of Vancouver.
The Queen of Oak Bay ran aground on June 30, 2005, after it lost control while approaching the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal.
Subsequent investigations indicated the cause may have been a missing pin in the governor system, which controls the amount of fuel for one of the vessel's engines.
The ship had recently had a series of upgrades, and BC Ferries sued two of the companies involved in that work: Vancouver Drydock Company Ltd. and Prime Mover Controls Inc.
BC Ferries alleged the companies breached their contracts by failing to spot the missing pin, but Judge Susan Griffin ruled neither company was required by the contract with BC Ferries to service the ship's governor system.
The allegation was part of a larger lawsuit that was split into two parts, and the newly released judgment only deals with the first half of the case.
