What you should know about the Mexican shipping ship that crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge

Two crew members on board a Mexican sailing ship died on Saturday evening when the ship moved to the underside of the Brooklyn Bridge and shattered its masts and rigging. The Cuauhtémoc ship with 277 people on board, including 175 marine cadets-war on a good will tour worldwide, which included a stopover in New York.

At least 22 other crew members were injured in the crash, which was largely recorded on social media with shattering videos. The two who died of their injuries were a cadet, América Yamileth Sánchez Hernández (20) and a sailor, Adal Jair Maldonado Marcos, 23.

Rodolfo Hernández, Ms. Sánchez Hernández 'uncle, said reporters on Sunday that his niece sent her photos in Central Park the day before the accident in Central Park. When the news came from her death, he said: “We collapsed; we didn't have the strength to wear it.”

What happened?

It is still unclear what the 300-foot ship caused to avert the course and hit the bridge.

A maritime expert informed the New York Times that the propellers of the Cuauhtémoc might have run the other way round. After Senator Charles Schumer from New York had been informed about the accident, he said that the ship “did not use the support of a tractor” and that the tractor “was shown in widespread videos that reacted according to the fact without helping it before”.

On Monday, President Claudia Sheinbaum from Mexico announced in a press conference that the Mexican Navy, the US Coast Guard and the National Transportation Safety Board, an independent US agency who was responsible for the examination of transport accidents, were examined in the crash, to see that it was a mechanical cause when it comes to the drag acted when it was a human mistake. “