The Mexican navy tall ship that crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday evening apparently misplaced energy shortly earlier than the collision, the NYPD mentioned.
The hulking Cuauhtémoc, which holds a crew of 277 largely made up of cadets, appeared to lose management because it went backwards into the bridge and slammed its towering masts into the roadbed at about 8:30 p.m.
Two sailors had been on prime of one of many 147-foot masts when it struck the bridge. To date, 4 folks on board had been critically injured within the crash and one other 23 had been injured, the NYPD mentioned.
The discovering of lack of energy is just preliminary officers cautioned and the The Nationwide Transportation Security Board continues to be investigating.
Officers mentioned the ship was on its means out of New York on its strategy to Iceland when the catastrophe occurred.
