Over 30 injured, no one missing after tanker collides with riverboat in New Orleans: Officials
- On Friday, the 520-foot tanker Atlantic Asphalt collided with the docked 295-foot riverboat American Heritage in New Orleans at 12:30 p.m., partially submerging the vessel and sending passengers into the Mississippi River.
- Local officials and river pilots suggest the Marshall Islands-flagged tanker experienced a steering failure before striking the paddlewheel riverboat, though Port of New Orleans authorities maintain the exact cause remains under investigation.
- New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno called the rescue a "miracle on the Mississippi," noting that all 129 passengers and crew were accounted for, though 32 people were transported to local hospitals with noncritical injuries.
- Following the collision, the U.S. Coast Guard closed the Mississippi River to all vessel traffic between mile markers 93 and 96 to facilitate rescue operations and damage assessment.
- Echoing the 1996 Bright Field crash, the National Transportation Safety Board has launched an investigation to determine the collision's circumstances as crews work to reopen the critical waterway.
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A container ship struck a cruise ship in New Orleans. A total of 32 passengers were hospitalized.
All passengers have been accounted for after a tanker and a passenger ship collided on the Mississippi River in New Orleans on Friday. Thirty-two people are being treated in hospital, but none of them are in life-threatening condition.
A tanker collided on Friday 13 November with a cruise ship moored on the Mississippi, with about 129 passengers on board and gave the start to a large rescue operation. The impact occurred around 12.30 locals in front of the palace of the administration of the port of New Orleans. The oil tanker Atlantic Asphalt hit [...] The article Impact side by side and violently in front of the port, people clinging to the railings, others throw themselves …
In New Orleans in the U.S. state of Louisiana there has been a ship accident.
On Friday, the 13th tanker was boarded by a cruise ship.
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