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Mexican Navy Ship ... crashes into the Brooklyn Bridge
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And another view of the crash...
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Massive sail ship just hit the Brooklyn Bridge trying to go under it 😳
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Apparently Senator Chuck Schumer is blaming Trump/DOGE for crash.
But NY Mayor, in a press conference, announced that a mechanical failure caused the ship to lose power minutes before the crash and it was caught in a current.
Also, the Coast Guard was fully operational and properly staffed.
Full story at Breitbart : https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...ims-trump-doge-had-part-fatal-nyc-ship-crash/
But NY Mayor, in a press conference, announced that a mechanical failure caused the ship to lose power minutes before the crash and it was caught in a current.
Also, the Coast Guard was fully operational and properly staffed.
Full story at Breitbart : https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...ims-trump-doge-had-part-fatal-nyc-ship-crash/
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is trying to blame President Donald Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for a Mexican Navy tall ship hitting the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, leaving two people dead.
Schumer argued a U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) system may not have been operating at full capacity when the incident occurred, Fox News reported on Monday.
The Senate Minority Leader further claimed it was due to a hiring freeze at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), but the U.S. Coast Guard is pushing back on his arguments.
“We know that the Trump administration has been meddling in U.S. Coast Guard operations, from staffing to command and comms, and I have the general sense of a DOGE dysfunction in parts of the Coast Guard, to put it mildly,” Schumer wrote in his statement.
He also shared his claims in a social media post on Sunday, stating that “Trump relieved Admiral Linda Fagan as Commandant of the USCG, and that position is still vacant. And the hiring freeze has limited the ability for the USCG to staff up the Vehicle Traffic Service, that’s their traffic control operation that acts like Air Traffic Control but on water”:
However, the Fox article noted there were no additional ships linked to the incident that would have involved the VTS, and the Coast Guard countered Schumer’s claims about the crash, which also injured more than a dozen people.
According to the USCG, the VTS was “fully functional during the incident and operating in accordance with established procedures to manage commercial traffic and facilitate safe navigation.”
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) said a mechanical issue caused the ship to lose power and the water’s current pushed the ship backward, which caused it to hit the bridge...
And now this report.
Propeller was going in reverse at the time of the crash.
FULL STORY AT LINK>>>
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Propeller was going in reverse at the time of the crash.
FULL STORY AT LINK>>>
Mexican Ship in Fatal Crash Accelerated Before Hitting Brooklyn Bridge
A Mexican naval ship in the East River accelerated suddenly in the wrong direction before slamming its masts into the
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Mexican Ship in Fatal Crash Accelerated Before Hitting Brooklyn Bridge
A Mexican naval ship in the East River accelerated suddenly in the wrong direction before slamming its masts into the Brooklyn Bridge in a crash that killed two crew members, federal transportation officials said on Monday.
The ship, the Cuauhtémoc, was moving at a speed of about 2.3 knots after shoving off from a Lower Manhattan pier Saturday night with a tugboat’s help, Brian Young of the National Transportation Safety Board said at a news conference.
The 300-foot long ship, which had 277 people on board, maintained that pace for “a bit of time” before “the speed began to increase,” said Mr. Young, the investigator leading the safety board’s inquiry into the crash. The Cuauhtémoc’s speed had risen to six knots when it hit the bridge less than five minutes after leaving shore, he said.
It was unclear what caused the sudden acceleration, Mr. Young said. But it will be among the issues investigators focus on in the course of an examination that is in its earliest stages and that could take up to two years to complete.
“This is a start of a long process,” Michael Graham, an N.T.S.B. board member, said at the news conference, noting that the agency expected to issue a preliminary report of its findings within 30 days. “We will not be drawing any conclusions. We will not speculate.”
Mr. Graham said agency officials were working with their Mexican counterparts to gain access to the ship so that investigators could inspect the engine, interview crew members still on board and recover any data recorders the vessel may have. The damaged vessel is now docked at Pier 36 in Manhattan.
“We are optimistic that we will have that access very soon,” Mr. Graham said.
The Cuauhtémoc left Acapulco on April 6 on a good-will tour with stops that included New York; Jamaica; Cuba; Barbados; Scotland; Spain; and London, according to the Mexican Navy. After leaving Manhattan, its next scheduled stop was to be Reykjavík, Iceland.
Mr. Young offered the following timeline of the events surrounding the crash:
At 8:20 p.m. Saturday, the Cuauhtémoc, with the tugboat’s assistance, backed away from Pier 17, where it had been docked since arriving in New York on May 13. The plan was to sail south down the East River and out of New York Harbor, with a stop along the Brooklyn waterfront to refuel before heading out to sea.
A preliminary weather report indicated dusk conditions, westerly winds of about 10 knots and a current of about 0.3 knots in the direction of the bridge.
But rather than sailing south after leaving the pier, Mr. Young said, “the vessel’s astern motion and speed increased” as it headed backward toward the bridge. At around 8:24 p.m., a radio call went out seeking assistance from other tugboats in the area.
Two other requests for help soon followed, and at 8:24 and 45 seconds, the Cuauhtémoc’s masts struck the underside of the bridge. At 8:27, the ship came to a stop. Three minutes later, emergency workers reached the scene.
Among those whom investigators plan to talk to are the harbor pilot, whose role was to help the Cuauhtémoc navigate New York Harbor’s tricky tides and currents and commercial ship traffic, and representatives of the tugboat company.
“We haven’t had a chance to do any interviews at this point,” Mr. Graham said.
FrancSevin
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The only Coast Guard staff Trump removed was Admiral Linda Fagan who would likely not have been involved, in any way shape or form, in this incident. Schumer continues to prove his unworthiness as a government representative, a decent man, or a politician,
Aha! 
