No distress calls made from Mexican Navy tall ship that crashed into Brooklyn Bridge, Mexico Navy chief says

The Mexican Navy gangly vessel that crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge implicit the play did not contented immoderate distress calls earlier the collision, but alternatively requested support, Mexico's Navy main said. 

The Navy chief, Raymundo Morales, said connected Tuesday that the larboard aviator maneuvering the Cuauhtémoc vessel did not person overmuch clip to halt the vessel, arsenic it had been docked a abbreviated region from the bridge.

"We cannot speculate astatine this clip whether the larboard aviator decently utilized each measures available," Morales said astatine a property league with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.

BROOKLYN BRIDGE SUSTAINS NO STRUCTURAL DAMAGE AFTER FATAL MEXICAN NAVY SHIP CRASH

The Mexican Navy sailing vessel that crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge sits moored successful Manhattan connected May 18, 2025, successful New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Two sailors were killed and much than 20 others were injured erstwhile the 150-foot-tall Mexican Navy grooming ship struck the span astir 8:30 p.m. Saturday. All those injured were aboard the ship, and nary of the 277 radical onboard fell into the water.

Footage of the clang shows the ship's 3 masts snapping aft hitting the bridge. The footage besides shows sailors clinging to the rigging ropes connected the damaged masts.

U.S. officials investigating the mishap volition analyse a imaginable motor malfunction and the relation of a tugboat that assisted the vessel successful backing retired of its pier. The probe, officials said, volition instrumentality astatine slightest 30 days.

 A presumption of the Mexican navy gangly vessel being tended by the authorities aft it crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge successful Manhattan, connected May 18, 2025. (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)

"Of course, it volition number connected the collaboration and enactment of the Navy and the security institution liable for the ship," Sheinbaum said.

Two cadets with terrible injuries are receiving attraction astatine New York hospitals and their families person traveled determination to beryllium with them, Morales said.

"Their lives are not successful information and they volition astir apt beryllium released from the infirmary connected Wednesday," helium said. "The 2 cadets that unluckily died were transferred backmost to Mexico connected Monday and their bodies are present with their families."

CREW ON MEXICAN NAVY TALL SHIP SEEN CLINGING TO RIGGING AFTER COLLISION WITH BROOKLYN BRIDGE, VIDEO SHOWS

The Mexican Navy grooming vessel that deed the Brooklyn Bridge sits moored successful Manhattan connected May 18, 2025, successful New York City. (ANA FERNANDEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

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The Cuauhtémoc was built successful Bilbao, Spain, successful 1981 and has won the Tall Ships’ Races twice, according to Sail Training International. The vessel was successful New York City arsenic portion of a promotion for an lawsuit adjacent twelvemonth that celebrates America’s 250th birthday.

Reuters contributed to this report.