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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Cy Neff

Mexican navy says ship’s pilot in deadly bridge crash was from New York

People on board ship
The training vessel Cuauhtémoc, which crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge at the weekend. Photograph: Eduardo Muñoz/Reuters

The Mexican navy has said that the pilot navigating the training ship Cuauhtémoc during its Saturday night crash into the Brooklyn Bridge was New York-based.

“The ship must be controlled by a specialized harbor pilot from the New York government,” Admiral Raymundo Pedro Morales Ángeles said at a press conference.

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