The Mexican naval ship beats Brooklyn Bridge: 2 killed, 20 injured after the training of boat accidents in NYC

Dumbo, Brooklyn (WABC) – Two people were killed and almost two dozen injured 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 the Brooklyn Bridge Park, as the horrified spectators watched, as the massive ship, which is known as Cuauhtémoc, referred to with almost 300 seafarers on board towards the 142-year-old bridge and then hit the 142-year bridge. The collision caused the three high -towering masts of the ship to grab the impact while the crew members were dangling in the air.

According to the Mexican naval officers, a total of 22 crew members have been reported so far, with at least eleven of them in a critical condition. Two people on board the ship died of the consequences of the collision.

The mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, burdened social media on social media early on Sunday morning due to the fatal crash.

“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.

In the meantime, the New York Ministry of Transport said that Brooklyn Bridge was not damaged by the collision and that traffic can flow freely.

According to the US Coast Guard, ships that move in the nearby area have been dependent at slow speed since the Cuauhtémoc on the Pier 36 on the East River for damage ratings and further evaluation.

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.

The National Transportation Safety Board is on site and will begin his investigation, but will show preliminary information that, according to officials, it was probably a mechanical problem with the sailboat.

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 Naval Military School does the training to complete 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. It 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 and ABC News contributed to this report.

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