Viking Cruise Ship Accident In Budapest

At the time of the collision there were 35 people aboard the Hableány.

Viking cruise ship accident in budapest. All 27 targets were from the Mermaid which sank within secs of the collision. Police confirmed Thursday that 7 people are dead and another 21 are still missing. The boat accident in May in Budapest killed 27 people mostly South Korean tourists.

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. 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. Body found five days after crash.

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. Yuri Chaplinskys cruise liner the Viking Sigyn hit a smaller tourist boat the Mermaid under a bridge in the capital during torrential rain on. The small Hableany Mermaid tour boat collided with the Viking Sigyn river cruise ship on May 29 near the Hungarian Parliament in Budapest.

Last month the Viking Sigyn hit a small tour boat during a stormy nighttime cruise along a crowded stretch of the Danube in Budapest killing 19 South Korean tourists and a Hungarian crewman. Hableány sunk in 7 seconds. Budapest Hungary The Viking Sigyn a 95-room river cruise ship collided with a small sight-seeing boat the Mermaid carrying 33 South Korean tourists.

On the night of May 29 in a driving rain an international cruise ship the Viking Sigyn struck and sank a smaller sightseeing boat the Mermaid killing 28 people. All but two of those killed were South Korean tourists. It was the worst crash on the Danube in more than 50 years.

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 accident resulted in shutting down to all shipping traffic a section of Main-Donau Kanal Main-Danube Canal aka Europa-Kanal. The Viking Sigyn cruise ship struck the Mermaid tour boat just after 2100 local time 1900 GMT on 29 May as both vessels passed under Budapests Margaret Bridge.