Radio calls asked tugs for help 45 seconds before Mexican ship hit Brooklyn Bridge, officials say

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12. I remember the earliest report mentioned some kind of "power failure"

so it's possible there was some kind of blown relay and the engines didn't respond to commands.

One of the things mentioned about this ship too was that the masts were mostly steel (vs wood, although it was unknown if the very topmost parts might have been wood or not). So the masts actually didn't splinter apart and take down any other masts when they hit the underside of the bridge. I did see a couple other videos that showed crew that were dangling from their harnesses on the yards that they were originally standing on that were just below the broken ones.

Like that ship that hit the Key Bridge in Baltimore, it will be interesting to hear what the outcome is for this.