Federal officials were in Manhattan on Monday to investigate the Brooklyn Bridge ship crash involving a Mexican Navy ship on Saturday, a collision that left two crew members dead.

Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said the training ship, called Cuauhtémoc, was supposed to go south on the East River — the opposite direction of the Brooklyn Bridge — when it left Pier 17 at 8:20 p.m. on May 17. It was en route to Iceland.

According to Brian Young, the investigator in charge, the first calls for assistance from the Cuauhtémoc came about four minutes after the ship left the pier. Close

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