What began as a calm evening along the East River turned into chaos within seconds when a towering naval training vessel lost control and collided with one of New York City’s most iconic landmarks.
The Mexican Navy’s tall ship Cuauhtémoc, a 297-foot training vessel carrying 277 people, struck the Brooklyn Bridge late Saturday, leaving two crew members dead and nearly twenty others injured. What should have been a routine passage beneath the bridge quickly spiraled into a scene of panic, confusion, and fear that witnesses say unfolded almost too fast to process.