Summary

  • US transportation authorities say there is no structural damage to the Brooklyn Bridge after a Mexican Navy ship crashed into it on Saturday evening

  • National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) members say they have not had a chance to interview any crew members yet and are working with their Mexican counterparts to gain access to the vessel

  • Two young Mexican Navy cadets were killed when the ARM Cuauhtémoc's three masts were snapped as the ship ploughed into the iconic structure, which links Manhattan and Brooklyn

  • Twenty-two other crew members were injured, three of them critically, the Mexican Navy says

Video shows ship crashing into Brooklyn Bridge

Live Reporting

Edited by Caitlin Wilson

  1. Brooklyn Bridge Navy ship crash press conference expected shortly

    Sailors on the masts of the CuauhtemocEPA

    Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the aftermath of the Brooklyn Bridge ship crash, which happened on Saturday evening.

    The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) - which is the US transport investigative agency - is expected to hold a news conference very shortly (15:00 EDT).

    We expect there to be updates from after the crash, which killed two young Navy cadets and left three other sailors critically injured.

    They were among the 277 crew members on board the Mexican Navy's sailing ship - known as the Cuauhtémoc - when its three masts snapped as they hit the bridge.

    You can follow the news conference live by pressing Watch Live at the top of this page, and we'll be filing any news lines as they come, so stick with us.