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. Hableány sunk in 7 seconds. Body found five days after crash. The Viking cruise ship collided with an 89-ft 27-m long sightseeing boat Hableany translated Mermaid on Danube River near Budapests Parliament building.

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. The Viking Sigyn cruise ship hit the Mermaid after 2100 local time 1900 GMT on 29 May. 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.

BUDAPEST Hungary Hungarian police have detained the captain of a cruise ship that collided with a sightseeing boat packed with South Korean tourists causing it to sink quickly in the Danube River as loved ones of the missing and dead were expected to arrive Friday in Budapest. On June 5 2019 the Viking longship Var hit a Danube River lock in Germany. 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.

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. Police confirmed Thursday that 7 people are dead and another 21 are still missing. The accident resulted in shutting down to all shipping traffic a section of Main-Donau Kanal Main-Danube Canal aka Europa-Kanal.

The Viking ship collided Wednesday evening with a much smaller sightseeing boat carrying 35 people most of them South Korean tourists in Budapest. 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. 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.

We can confirm that even though the Captain of the Viking Sigyn was onboard the Viking Idun on April 1. The closure of the waterway June 5-14 affected 25 scheduled cruise itineraries mainly between homeports Amsterdam Holland and Budapest. All but two of those killed were South Korean tourists.