2 killed, 19 injured after the Mexican shipping ship fell against the Brooklyn Bridge

Dumbo, Brooklyn (WABC) – Two people were killed when a high Mexican naval ship lost power on an international goodwill tour and fell against the bottom of the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday evening.

The collision occurred shortly before 8:30 p.m. near Brooklyn Bridge Park, as a horrific spectator, how the massive ship smashed towards the 142-year-old bridge, the three high-towering masts on impact and crew members had a dangling in the air.

In the early Sunday, the New York Mayor Eric Adams announced that two people died in the collision and that two of the 19 injuries were seriously injured.

“We pray for everyone on board and their families and are grateful to our first aiders, who quickly get into practice, that this accident was not much worse,” said Adams in one post on X.

The Cuauhtémoc, a training ship on an international goodwill mission, was stroked and next went to Iceland when the collision took place.

According to the authorities, the captain of the boat had lost control of the ship, and Adams said on Sunday morning that the ship had lost power. The masts of the ship grabbed when they hit the underside of the bridge and fell the pieces onto the deck. Officials say that the iconic span itself has not suffered structural damage. All lanes on the bridge were reopened after a short closure after the collision.

The authorities said that 277 people were on board the ship and that nobody fell into the water when some seafarers dangled on the mast after crashing in front of belts.

The victims were taken away on stock exchanges at the Pier 17 at South Street Seaport.

During a press conference on Saturday, the NYPD commissioner said that the national transportation would be examining Safety Board.

Witness videos record the threatening approach of the ship to the bridge. In a video there is a woman who filmed the ship who was decorated with amber lights and a huge Mexican flag loudly if the ship could collide with the bridge. When the mast of the ship hits the bottom of the bridge, she screams: “It has crashed! It's crashed!” In Spanish and then, in English, the ship continues to approach the Dumbo bank: “Stop! Stop!”

“Oh my god,” she continues in English and then she says in Spanish: “It has crashed, it crashed.

The NYPD Harbor Unit and Scuba were one of the first aiders who came together in the scene.

The Mexican ship was described as a “goodwill ship”, which had plagued the water since 1982.

According to the Mexican marine, the Cuauhtémoc is about 297 feet long and 40 feet wide. According to the Mexican government, the main mast of the ship has a height of 160 feet.

Every year, the ship at the end of the lesson on the Naval Military School makes the training of the cadets. This year it left the Mexican port of Acapulco on April 6 on the Pacific coast, said the Navy.

On May 13, the Mexican consulate said that the Cuauhtémoc, which was also referred to as “Ambassador and Knight of the Seas”, arrived on that day and was docked at the Pier 17. People invited people to visit until May 17th.

The ship was supposed to visit 22 ports in 15 nations, including Kingston, Jamaica; Havana, Cuba; Cozumel, Mexico; And New York.

It had also planned to go to Reykjavik, Iceland; Bordeaux, Saint Malo and Dunkirk, France; And Aberdeen, Scotland, among other things, for a total of 254 days, 170 of them at sea.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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