Viking Cruise Ship Accident In Budapest

22 women 12 men and a six-year-old girl traveling with her mother and grandparents.

Viking cruise ship accident in budapest. Seven people were rescued. Last Updated 2 years ago. At the time of the collision there were 35 people aboard the Hableány.

The Viking Sigyn cruise ship hit the Mermaid after 2100 local time 1900 GMT on 29 May. The closure of the waterway June 5-14 affected 25 scheduled cruise itineraries mainly between homeports Amsterdam Holland and Budapest. The collision in Budapest on May 29 killed 28 people most of them South Korean tourists.

Seven people are confirmed dead in. 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. 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.

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 accident occurred at 905 PM on Wednesday when Hungarian sightseeing boat Hableány Mermaid collided with Viking Sigyn a large cruise ship belonging to a Swiss company. The heavy rainfall and the resulting strong.

Body found five days after crash. 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. 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.

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. The Viking cruise ship collided with an 89-ft 27-m long sightseeing boat Hableany translated Mermaid on Danube River near Budapests Parliament building. The accident resulted in shutting down to all shipping traffic a section of Main-Donau Kanal Main-Danube Canal aka Europa-Kanal.