Moments of terror and panic on the quay in front of the Brookyln Bridge when a gigantic three -trees of the Mexican Navy crashed against the iconic New York bridge.
Two of the 277 people aboard the Cuauhtémoc died and 19 were injured, but the budget could be much more serious if the ship had continued to skid also considering that at the time of the accident, around 8 pm on Saturday evening, the area in front of the bridge was full of New York and tourists. The photos and videos showing the velier illuminated to party go straight against the bridge and its trees shattering under the metal span of the Brooklyn Bridge have become viral, as well as the videos taken with cell phones that show people scream and run away at the sight of the crash.
“We felt many cries, we saw some sailors hanging on the trees,” a witness, nickname, told the American media. The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, said herself “deeply grieved” for the loss of two crew members of the Navy ship, 91 meters long and 12 meters wide, which was sailed for the first time in 1982. Every year, at the end of the course, the sailing ship takes the sea to complete the training of the cadets. This year he left the Mexican port of Acapulco on April 6 and his final destination was Iceland. Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani sent a message of solidarity and condolences to the Mexican colleague Marcelo Jewish. “On behalf of the government and my staff, I would like to express our closeness and the most heartfelt condolences, asking it to extend them to the families of the people involved in these tragic event”, reads the note of the Farnesina owner. The New York Coast Guard said that Cuauhtémoc has lost all three trees. All the staff on board was recovered and nobody fell into the water. Another witness, Kelvin Flores, who was working at the time of impact, said he went out on the street and found “a lot of confusion and chaos”, with self -pity and police who tried to reach the accident site, but the roads were clogged with traffic.
Ansa agency Mexican ship, ‘the helm stopped working’ He was moving in the “wrong direction, backwards”. A informed source reported it to the CNN “Seeing the real damages was absurd, he said.” People who brought barelle … tried to bring out the wounded “. According to the first reconstructions of the police, the accident was caused by a technical failure at the helm and a loss of power that left the sailing ship at the mercy of the current. The Cuauhtémoc was attracted to Pier 17 in Manhattan and was supposed to take a stop at Bay Ridge before taking the Iceland, but the current pushed it under the bridge.
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