A startling new video exhibits a smiling younger girl posing beneath the Brooklyn Bridge — utterly oblivious to the Mexican navy ship crashing simply ft behind her.
The graphic footage captured the unidentified girl smiling for the digicam as she posed on a railing alongside the water’s edge because the lit-up tall ship drifted behind her towards the enduring bridge Saturday night time.
At one level, the girl — clad in a white costume — glances again over her shoulder on the incoming ship and seems to say, “So cool!”
She even turned again and pointed in awe — seemingly unaware that the Cuauhtemoc coaching vessel’s mast had already crippled because it made contact with the bridge, killing two onboard.
Her smiling video then took a harrowing flip because it captured a number of Mexican crew members standing on the rigging — and later clutching on — because the vessel careened uncontrolled.
Finally, the girl and the particular person behind the digicam appeared to run again from the water’s edge with a handful of others.
Footage from different panicked witnesses additionally confirmed the identical dress-wearing girl working to security.
It comes as investigators proceed to probe the reason for the Saturday night time wreck that killed two sailors — Adal Jair Maldonado Marcos, 23, and América Yamilet Sánchez, 20 — and injured 19 others.
Officers have mentioned the Cuauhtemoc was underway for lower than 5 minutes earlier than its masts out of the blue crashed into the 142-year-old bridge as dozens of sailors stood harnessed excessive up in rigging as a part of a public show.
Radio calls indicating the ship was in misery went out simply 45 seconds earlier than the lethal collision, Nationwide Transportation Security Board investigators mentioned.
It wasn’t but clear if a mechanical drawback performed a task within the tragedy.
