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'Miracle on Mississippi' - All passengers rescued after New Orleans cruise ship collision
BBC ·
Updated 1h ago
- 2 more outlets picked it up in the last 3 hours, most recently BBC, Yahoo News.
- BBC changed its headline 7m ago. It first read: “'Miracle on Mississippi' - All rescued after cruise ship hit by tanker in New Orleans”
The collision leaves 32 people in hospital with non-critical injuries, but no-one unaccounted for.
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First reported by ABC News at · 5 outlets in all
- BBC'Miracle on Mississippi' - All passengers rescued after New Orleans cruise ship collisionThe collision leaves 32 people in hospital with non-critical injuries, but no-one unaccounted for.
- Yahoo NewsAll passengers accounted for after tanker hits cruise ship, New Orleans mayor saysThe mayor of New Orleans said on Friday evening that all of the more than 100 passengers aboard a cruise ship docked at the Port of New Orleans on the Mississippi River had been accounted for after a large asphalt tanker crashed into it, causing it to sink. Mayor Helena Moreno said at a news conference that the collision between the American Heritage cruise ship — a riverboat-style ship — and a tanker called the Atlantic Asphalt occurred around 12:30 p.m. after the tanker “lost control.” She said that passengers immediately began disembarking, but as they did so, the cruise ship capsized.…
- CBS NewsPassengers rescued after tanker hit river cruise in New OrleansA tanker struck a river cruise ship on the Mississippi River near the Port of New Orleans Friday, partially submerging the passenger boat.
- GuardianNew Orleans boat crash: all passengers and crew found alive in ‘miracle on the Mississippi’ – as it happenedRescue efforts under way as American Heritage takes on water; governor confirms incident in Mississippi RiverTanker collides with cruise ship on Mississippi River in New OrleansMartin J Davies, a maritime expert at Tulane University, told local news outlet Fox 8 that he suspected the incident was caused by either steerage failure or engine failure.“This ship is headed upriver and for it to have lost the ability to avoid the moored vessel, there must have been some fairly substantial failure, with the steering gear or the propulsion of the ship to prevent them from avoiding the vessel on…
- ABC News'Miracle': All rescued from capsized New Orleans riverboat in tanker collisionThe incident occurred Friday on the Mississippi River.