New York, US:
The Mexican navy training ship Cuauhtemoc, which hit the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday evening, apparently lost powerful moments before the crash and forced it to go to the bridge, said the New York police. After collision with the New York City monument, the ship broke all three of his masts, killing two people and 19 others were injured.
“At the moment, of the 277 on board, 19 lesions were sustained, 2 of which stay in critical condition, and 2 more unfortunately died of their injuries,” Adams placed on X.
The ship, which measures 297 feet (91 m) in length and 40 feet (12 m), sailed for the first time in 1982. Every year the ship sailed at the end of the Naval Military School classes to complete the training of Cadets. This year too, the ship had left the Acapulco port in Mexico on 6 April, intended as Iceland, according to the Mexican Navy.
It lost power around 8:20 pm (local time) while the captain maneuvered the ship and forced it to go to the bridge increase on the Brooklyn side, the New York police chief of special operations Wilson Arboles told a press conference.
The 45m (147ft) masts of the ship were too long to go through the curved bridge, which according to the website of the New York Transport Department has an approval of 135 ft in the middle.
Several sailors at the top of the ship were injured when it crashed against the bridge, Arboles said.
It is not clear whether these sailors are among the dead.
The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, said on Saturday that she was “deeply sad” due to the loss of two crew members of a naval ship after it crashed in the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City.
“We are deeply sad because of the loss of two crew members of the Cuauhtemoc training ship,” she posted on social media.
How the ship clashed
Images that are shared online showed the sails of the Mexican naval ship Cuauhtemoc, with festive lights and flags draped in his rigging, while a huge Mexican flag waved his stern. The ship went through the East River when hundreds of cheering spectators gathered to say goodbye.
The three-mast sailing ship Arm Cuauhtemoc of the Mexican navy crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. There were around 200 people on board the ship, which arrived in the United States for a sailing event. pic.twitter.com/t0xndn1h0i
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As a tradition, the ship has been in a pier in southern Manhattan since Tuesday and left it at the time of the New York accident.
While it tried to pass under the bridge, the masts were shaved off, causing the ship to collapse into the East River. The ship was later moved to near the Manhattan bridge, according to a AFP report.
The incident is the second deadly Schipcrash in a bridge in the United States in just over a year, after a ship was beaten in a bridge in Baltimore in March 2024, so that it collapsed and killed six road workers.
