Mexican tall ship strikes Brooklyn Bridge, snapping masts and killing 2 crew members

A Mexican navy ship hit the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday during a promotional tour in New York City, the top of its mast brushing the iconic span as it sailed through the East River. (AP Video by Kyle Marian Viterbo)

A Mexican navy ship hit the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday during a promotional tour in New York City, the top of its mast brushing the iconic span as it sailed through the East River.

The New York skyline and Brooklyn Bridge are framed in one of the snapped masts of a Mexican Navy training ship after it collided with the Brooklyn Bridge, Saturday, May 17, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

The New York skyline and Brooklyn Bridge are framed in one of the snapped masts of a Mexican Navy training ship after it collided with the Brooklyn Bridge, Saturday, May 17, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

A masted Mexican Navy training ship, the Cuauhtémoc, sits stranded after colliding with the Brooklyn Bridge in New York on Saturday, May 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Kyle Viterbo)

A masted Mexican Navy training ship, the Cuauhtémoc, sits stranded after colliding with in New York on Saturday, May 17

A masted Mexican Navy training ship, the Cuauhtémoc, sits stranded after colliding with in New York on Saturday, May 17, 2025.

A New York Police Department harbor unit passes in front of the Cuauhtémoc, a masted Mexican Navy training ship as it sits stranded near the Manhattan Brooklyn Bridge after colliding, Saturday, May 17, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Tug boats assist the Cuauhtémoc, a masted Mexican Navy training ship, toward Pier 35 after it collided with, Saturday, May 17, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

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Crew members aboard the Cuauhtémoc, a masted Mexican Navy training ship, gather on deck after the ship collided with, Saturday, May 17, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Visitors to Brooklyn Bridge Park look on as a masted Mexican Navy training ship sits stranded near the Manhattan Bridge after colliding with the Brooklyn Bridge, Saturday, May 17, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Videos showed heavy traffic on the span at the time of the 8:20 p.m. collision. No one on the bridge was reported injured.

The vessel, which was flying a giant Mexican flag and had 277 people aboard, then drifted into a pier on the riverbank as onlookers scrambled away.

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