Viking Cruise Ship Accident In Budapest

The collision in Budapest on May 29 killed 28 people most of them South Korean tourists.

Viking cruise ship accident in budapest. Yuri Chaplinskys cruise liner the Viking Sigyn hit a smaller tourist boat the Mermaid under a bridge in the capital during torrential rain on. On June 5 2019 the Viking longship Var hit a Danube River lock in Germany. It was the worst crash on the Danube in more than 50 years.

The river cruise ship Viking Sigyn collided with a tourist boat carrying 33 South Koreans on the Danube River in Budapest Hungary leaving at least seven people dead. Yuri Chaplinskys cruise ship lining the Viking Sigyn struck a smaller sized visitor watercraft the Mermaid under a bridge in the resources throughout downpour on May 29. 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.

The Viking Sigyn cruise ship hit the Mermaid after 2100 local time 1900 GMT on 29 May. The Viking ship collided Wednesday evening with a much smaller sightseeing boat carrying 35 people most of them South Korean tourists in Budapest the capital. Divers so far have been unable to even approach the wreckage of the 27-meter 88½-foot tour boat due to high water levels strong currents and murky waters.

The closure of the waterway June 5-14 affected 25 scheduled cruise itineraries mainly between homeports Amsterdam Holland and Budapest. We can confirm that even though the Captain of the Viking Sigyn was onboard the Viking Idun on April 1. The accident resulted in shutting down to all shipping traffic a section of Main-Donau Kanal Main-Danube Canal aka Europa-Kanal.

At least 7 are dead. MTI A Budapest court has ordered the Ukrainian captain of a cruise ship which collided with a sightseeing boat in central Budapest last spring to be released from custody and placed back in house arrest a spokesman for the municipal chief prosecutors office said on Monday. Ship Collision Allision On May 29 2019 during a storm torrential rain in homeport Budapest Hungary the Viking longship Sigyn collided with and sank a small tour boat carrying 35 people.

22 women 12 men and a six-year-old girl traveling with her mother and grandparents. Hableány sunk in 7 seconds. Seven people are confirmed dead in.