NTSB Investigation of a sudden acceleration in the fatal Brooklyn Bridge Ship Ship Crash

1 of 4 | View of the high ship of the Mexican Navy, Cuauhtémoc, after it was dismantled after his collision with Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday in New York City's East River. According to FDNY, 277 people were on the boat when the legendary landmark fell. After the collision, two crew members were dead and 27 people for treatment. Photo via FDNY/UPI | License photo

May 20 (Upi) – The National Transportation Safety Board, which examines a fatal crash of a Mexican ship in the New York Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, focuses on the tractors of the ship leader and the sudden acceleration.

The NTSB informed the reporters on Monday that it was still working with the Mexican government and had not yet received access to the military ship, which was called Cuauhtémoc.

“We are optimistic that we will have this access very soon,” said Michael Graham, board member of NTSB.

The investigators stated that they investigate whether a New York tractor that the Mexican ship from the harbor may have released the ship too quickly when it drove to Iceland.

According to the New York police department, the ship lost power before hit the bridge. The video of the crash shows a tractor that raced onto the ship when it drifted in the wrong direction.

“We have a bit of time in which it maintained a constant speed of about 2 to 2.3 knots and the speed began to gain weight,” said investigator Brian Young. “We will examine this as part of our technical assessment.”

“The VHF radio program was sounded at 8:24 p.m. and required to support other tractors in the area of ​​the bridge,” said Young, adding that the ship had reached a speed of about 6 knots.

The collision – 45 seconds later – broke the three masts of the ship, which were 30 feet higher than the underside of the Brooklyn Bridge. There were no structural damage to the bridge, the investigators confirmed.

The two crew members used the 147-foot masts for the traditional departure performance of the ship were killed. They were identified as América Yamilet Sanchez (21) and Adal Jair Marcos, 22. More than 20 more were injured. None of the 277 crew members on board fell into the water.

The ship took part in a training cruise with the name “Two hundred years of consolidation of the independence of the sea” to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Mexican Navy that Spain exuded. The ship sailed to New York from Cozumel on May 4th on the Yucatan peninsula. The 170-day cruise should stop in 22 ports in 15 countries.