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 tanker collided with a moored passenger ship carrying 200 people on the Mississippi River near the Port of New Orleans, causing the ship to sink. While there were no fatalities, 30 passengers and 2 crew members were injured, and the river was closed to ship traffic.
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32 people have been sent to the hospital, but none are in critical condition, said Helena Moreno, New Orleans' mayor, at a press conference.
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Over 30 people were injured after a tanker collided with a docked riverboat on the Mississippi River near the Port of New Orleans, officials said Friday. Nearly 200 people were on board the cruise ship, American Heritage, when the Atlantic Asphalt tanker collided with it, [...]
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