New Delhi, July 22 -- Fresh details indicate that the oil tanker on which three Indian sailors were killed last month was not sailing when it was hit by a US airstrike in the Gulf of Oman. Instead, the ship was drifting at sea with its engine turned off, awaiting the arrival of another ship to transfer oil, the New York Times (NYT) reported citing interviews with crew members, US military officials, and families of victims. On June 10, the 600-foot tanker Settebello's engine room was hit by a US airstrike shortly after 7am (local time), resulting in the death of chief engineer Suresh Patnala, mechanic Shivanand Chaurasia, and 23-year-old trainee cadet Aditya Sharma. The former two had just begun their shifts in the engine room while Sharma ...