Danube River Cruise Ship Accident

BUDAPEST Hungary -- A Hungarian judge on Saturday ordered the formal arrest of a captain whose Viking river cruise ship collided with a sightseeing boat on the Danube River sinking the tourist boat and leaving seven South Koreans dead and 21 other people missing.

Danube river cruise ship accident. Police special forces officers and divers are seen on a boat at the site of a ship accident which killed several people near Margaret Bridge on the Danube river in Budapest Hungary May 30. Late Friday night on the Danube a cargo ship broke from its anchor and headed straightaway into a river ship. BUDAPEST Hungary AP The captain of a cruise ship involved in a May 2019 collision on the Danube River in which 28 people were killed has.

Following a series of accidents that included a deadly river boat collision on the Danube and a dramatic evacuation of passengers from a broken-down ocean liner. Several passengers aboard the Viking Sigyn a Viking Cruises ship have come forward with their accounts of the recent tragedy on the Danube that injured seven took the lives of seven others and left 21 missingAccording to one tourist aboard the Viking Sigyn while most didnt even register the accident others were shocked by the sight of people stranded in the water screaming for help. The captain of a river cruise ship that collided with a tourist sightseeing boat in the Danube River in Budapest causing it to capsize and sink has been taken into custody by Hungarian police.

Captain of boat involved in Danube crash arrested. A search operation continues near the Margaret bridge on the Danube river after a. The boat was carrying South Korean tourists when it was hit by a cruise ship and capsized killing 20 people and.

October 15 2019 501 PM AP Experts have concluded that the captain of a sightseeing boat that collided on the Danube River with a much larger cruise ship was not responsible for the deadly. Saturdays collision was the second serious river cruise casualty on the Danube since June when the tourist boat Hableany collided with the river cruise ship Viking Sigyn in Budapest sinking the. Skipper of ship that struck tour boat on Danube killing at least 7 arrested Seven people are confirmed dead in the accident and 21 people are missing.

The heavy rainfall and the resulting strong. Police said it took only seven seconds for the boat to overturn and sink. A floating crane raised The Mermaid to the surface allowing divers to enter.

Hungarian for Mermaid was a 27-metre 89 ft river cruiser operated on the Danube river in Budapest HungaryOn a rainy night at 905 pm of 29 May 2019 the 135-metre 443 ft Viking Sigyn collided with Hableány from behind under the Margaret Bridge near the Parliament Building. River Cruise Tragedy On Wednesday night a tourist boat named Mermaid was involved in a collision which caused the vessel to sink on the Danube River in. The cargo vessel which was proceeding upstream en route.