The lives of more than 30 people who died trying to cross the Channel in a small boat could have been saved had a French warship responded to a Mayday call, an inquiry has found. Chairman Sir Ross Cranston also said the people smugglers who supplied the unsafe inflatable vessel, and flaws in HM Coastguard's search and rescue response, contributed to the deadliest incident of its kind on record. The boat became swamped and capsized while attempting the journey from France to the UK in the early