BROOKLYN BRIDGE HORROR: Mexican navy tall ship smashes into bridge, 2 dead, multiple hurt

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From the New York Post: A massive Mexican navy tall ship on a goodwill visit to New York slammed into the Brooklyn Bridge late Saturday — toppling its huge masts in a horrifying scene that left two dead and 17 injured, including two critically, according to fire officials and sources.

The majestic Cuauhtémoc — which has a crew of 277, mostly cadets — apparently lost power as it was sailing out of New York on its way to Iceland and the current carried it into the road deck of the bridge around 8:30 p.m., according to Mayor Eric Adams and footage of the crash.

The collision sheared off the ship’s 147-foot masts – with alarming footage capturing numerous crew members dangling for their lives from the sails and booms after the boat hit the bridge, which has a max clearance of 135 feet.

Numerous onlookers stood by the shore with cameras and filmed the ship’s departure from numerous angles — and became alarmed as the tips of the masts toppled over one by one as they hit the bridge.

The ship, flying a giant Mexican flag, was clearly too tall to go under the bridge.

Multiple people got videos of the terrible calamity.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams released the following statement:

Earlier tonight, the Mexican Navy tall ship Cuauhtémoc lost power and crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge. At this time, of the 277 on board, 19 sustained injuries, 2 of which remain in critical condition, and 2 more have sadly passed away from their injuries.

We are praying for everyone on board and their families and are grateful to our first responders who quickly jumped into action, ensuring this accident wasn’t much worse.

Following our preliminary inspection, we can confirm that the bridge sustained no damage and is now open to the public.

The FDNY wrote:

At approximately 8:20 Saturday night, the FDNY received a call that a boat struck the Brooklyn Bridge. There were 277 people on the boat. 27 people were removed for treatment.

“Originally, we had a Brooklyn box out for folks in the water, for a boat in distress. Once the marine units arrived on scene, we knew immediately that we had a serious incident with a boat striking the bridge, so we had reports of people in the water. At that point coming down the FDR, we decided to have a dual command post, both on the Brooklyn side and the Manhattan side.

Our marine units got out there, picked up Rescue 2 and Rescue 4 and brought them out to the vessel. They started to remove and treat the aided. They also brought EMS units out to the vessel to start to treat the more seriously injured people on that vessel. They brought them all here to Pier 16, where we set up a casualty collection point and an EMS staging area to assess the victims and send the most serious to the hospital right away. The police, fire and EMS did a tremendous job of working together to get everyone off of that ship safe,” said Chief of Training Michael Meyers.

The following video gives a clearly look at all the Mexican sailors standing on the masts prior to the crash.

Another video posted to social media was taken from the bridge, looking down on the broken ship.

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