House Armed Services Committees both held hearings to inquire into the Navy's investigation and later released reports disputing the U.S. The victims' families, the media (CBS's 60 Minutes), and members of Congress were sharply critical of the U.S.
Navy concluded that the evidence did not show that Hartwig was homosexual but that he was suicidal and had caused the explosion with either an electronic or chemical detonator. Navy officers and investigators, implied that Hartwig and another sailor, Kendall Truitt, had engaged in a romantic relationship and that Hartwig had caused the explosion after their relationship had soured. During the investigation, numerous leaks to the media, later attributed to U.S. Navy, concluded that one of the gun turret crew members, Clayton Hartwig, who died in the explosion, had deliberately caused it. The first investigation into the explosion, conducted by the U.S. The investigations produced conflicting conclusions. Navy and then one by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Sandia National Laboratories. Two major investigations were undertaken into the cause of the explosion, one by the U.S. The explosion in the center gun room killed 47 of the turret's crewmen and severely damaged the gun turret itself.
On 19 April 1989, an explosion occurred within the Number Two 16-inch gun turret of the United States Navy battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) during a fleet exercise in the Caribbean Sea near Puerto Rico. Overramming of powder bags (Sandia Labs inquiry) Debris and smoke fly through the air as USS Iowa 's Turret Two's center gun explodes
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