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NEW YORK CITY (WPIX) — Two unit members person died aft a Mexican Navy ship crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge arsenic it was traveling done New York City connected a planetary goodwill tour.
Mayor Eric Adams announced the 2 deaths successful a post to X precocious Saturday night. Some 22 radical had been injured, 11 of whom were successful superior information and 9 successful unchangeable condition, according to the Mexican Secretary of the Navy. Their conditions arsenic of Sunday greeting were not instantly available.
As of Sunday afternoon, 1 of the victims has been identified arsenic 20-year-old cadet América Yamilet Sánchez of Xalapa by Veracruz Governor Rocío Nahle García.
“I profoundly regret the passing of Veracruz cadet América Yamilet Sánchez. My love, support, and solidarity spell retired to her family,” the politician said successful a post to X Sunday afternoon.
The clang happened astir 8:20 p.m. Saturday, erstwhile the boat, carrying 277 people, struck the bridge, according to the FDNY.
Several videos posted to social media, including 1 seen astatine the apical of this story, showed the vessel gliding on the East River earlier its masts deed the Brooklyn Bridge, causing them to drawback 1 by 1 arsenic the vessel continued moving.
There were sailors connected apical of the vessel erstwhile the mast went "right into" the bridge, NYPD officials said Saturday.
Slideshow: Mexican Navy grooming vessel damaged aft Brooklyn Bridge crash
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 18: The Mexican Navy sailing vessel that crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge sits moored successful little Manhattan connected May 18, 2025 successful New York City. The ship, the Cuauhtémoc, which snapped each 3 of its masts arsenic it collided with the New York City landmark bridge, killed astatine slightest 2 radical and injured 19 others. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
NEW YORK CITY, USA - MAY 17: People ticker the Mexican navy gangly vessel being tended by the authorities aft it crashes into the Brooklyn Bridge successful Manhattan, New York, USA connected May 18, 2025. The ship, which has a unit of 277, collided with the bridge's roadworthy platform and near aggregate unit members earnestly injured, and 2 radical passed away, according officials and sources. (Photo by Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 17: Broken mast of a disabled Mexican Navy gangly vessel is seen arsenic the Mexican navy gangly ship, making a festive sojourn to New York, crashes into the Brooklyn Bridge connected May 17, 2025 successful New York City. A Mexican navy sailing vessel crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge connected May 17, sidesplitting 2 sailors and injuring 19 others connected committee the trade arsenic the tops of its masts were sheared off. (Photo by Liao Pan/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)
A masted Mexican Navy grooming ship, the Cuauhtémoc, sits stranded aft colliding with the Brooklyn Bridge successful New York connected Saturday, May 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Kyle Viterbo)
Tug boats assistance the Cuauhtémoc, a masted Mexican Navy grooming ship, toward Pier 35 aft it collided with the Brooklyn Bridge, Saturday, May 17, 2025, successful New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
Railings astatine Brooklyn Bridge Park thin damaged aft a masted Mexican Navy grooming vessel collided with the Brooklyn Bridge and the waterfront walkway, Saturday, May 17, 2025, successful New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
Pedestrians walking on Brooklyn Bridge Park look connected arsenic a masted Mexican Navy grooming vessel sits stranded adjacent the Manhattan Bridge aft colliding with the Brooklyn Bridge, Saturday, May 17, 2025, successful New York. (Nick Corso via AP)
A Mexican navy vessel sits successful the h2o aft it deed the Brooklyn Bridge connected Saturday, May 17, 2025 successful New York. (AP Photo/Kyle Viterbo)
A New York Police Department harbor portion prepares to committee the Cuauhtémoc, a masted Mexican Navy grooming vessel that collided with the Brooklyn Bridge, Saturday, May 17, 2025, successful New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
Sailors could beryllium seen aloft successful the rigging connected the damaged masts but, remarkably, nary 1 fell into the water, officials said.
The ship, called the Cuauhtemoc, had a mechanical contented aft departing from Pier 17, officials said. It was unclear what caused the vessel to veer disconnected course. New York Police Department Special Operations Chief Wilson Aramboles said the vessel had conscionable near a Manhattan pier and was expected to person been headed retired to sea, not toward the bridge.
He said an archetypal study was that the aviator of the vessel had mislaid powerfulness owed to a mechanical problem, though officials cautioned that accusation was preliminary. Videos amusement a tugboat was adjacent to the Cuauhtemoc astatine the clip of the crash.
The Mexican Secretary of the Navy said the Cuauhtemoc was a grooming ship.
"We profoundly regret the passing of 2 unit members of the Cuauhtémoc Training Ship, who mislaid their lives successful the unfortunate mishap astatine the larboard of New York. Our solidarity and enactment spell retired to their families," said Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum successful a statement.
The Cuauhtemoc — astir 297 feet agelong and 40 feet wide, according to the Mexican navy — sailed for the archetypal clip successful 1982. Its main mast has a tallness of 160 feet.
Each year, the Cuauhtemoc sets retired astatine the extremity of classes astatine the naval subject schoolhouse to decorativeness cadets' training. This year, it near the Mexican larboard of Acapulco, connected the Pacific coast, connected April 6, the navy said.
Sydney Neidell and Lily Katz told The Associated Press they were sitting extracurricular to ticker the sunset erstwhile they saw the vas onslaught the bridge.
“We saw idiosyncratic dangling, and I couldn’t archer if it was conscionable blurry oregon my eyes, and we were capable to zoom successful connected our telephone and determination was idiosyncratic dangling from the harness from the apical for similar astatine slightest similar 15 minutes earlier they were capable to rescue them,” Katz said.
Just earlier the collision, Nick Corso, 23, took his telephone retired to seizure the backdrop of the vessel and the span against a sunset, Instead, helium heard what sounded similar the large snapping of a “big twig." Several much snaps followed.
People successful his vicinity began moving and “pandemonium” erupted aboard the ship, helium said. He aboriginal saw a fistful of radical dangling from a mast.
“I didn’t cognize what to think, I was like, is this a movie?” helium said.
The 142-year-old Brooklyn Bridge was initially closed successful some directions but did not person structural damage, officials said.
The Brooklyn Bridge, which opened successful 1883, has a astir 1,600-foot main span supported by 2 masonry towers. More than 100,000 vehicles and an estimated 32,000 pedestrians transverse each day, according to the city’s proscription department. Its walkway is simply a large tourer attraction.
The Cuauhtemoc arrived successful New York City connected May 13, wherever visitors were invited for respective days, the Mexican consulate said. The vessel was scheduled to sojourn 22 ports successful 15 nations implicit 254 days, 170 of them astatine sea.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
