Brooklyn Bridge-Mexican ship collision eyewitness says ‘somebody dangled for quarter-hour’
Chaos erupted in New York on Saturday when the Mexican Navy’s coaching ship slammed into the Brooklyn Bridge, ripping off the highest of its towering masts and leaving uniformed sailors dangling from crossbeams.
The tense second was caught on video and rapidly unfold throughout social media. Footage reveals the ship, with some 200 folks on board, gliding towards the historic suspension bridge earlier than its masts violently collide with the bridge’s metal undercarriage.
Clad in white naval uniforms, dozens of crew members have been seen clinging to the rigging on the broken masts.
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Some sailors have been left suspended mid-air, holding on to crossbars for security as items of the ship’s rigging splintered round them.
Panic additionally unfold onshore. Close to the South Avenue Seaport, crowds of bystanders have been seen sprinting away from the waterfront.
‘Noticed somebody dangling…’: Witness describes Brooklyn Bridge crash scene
Sydney Neidell and Lily Katz advised The Related Press they have been sitting outdoors to look at the sundown after they noticed the vessel strike the bridge and considered one of its masts snap. Trying nearer, they noticed somebody dangling excessive on the ship.
“We noticed somebody dangling, and I could not inform if it was simply blurry or my eyes, and we have been capable of zoom in on our telephone, and somebody was dangling from the harness from the highest for like at the very least like quarter-hour earlier than they have been capable of rescue them,” Katz mentioned.
They mentioned they noticed two folks faraway from the ship on stretchers onto smaller boats.
Two folks have died and 19 folks sustained accidents whereas two after a Mexican Navy ship carrying 277 passengers misplaced energy and crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge, Mayor of New York Metropolis, Eric Adams, mentioned on Sunday (native time).
Earlier, the Mexican Navy mentioned in its assertion that nobody had fallen into the water and that no rescue operation had been launched, AFP reported.
“No personnel fell into the water, so it was not essential to activate rescue operations,” the assertion added, following the accident involving the Cuauhtemoc coaching vessel.
