Investigators have confirmed that no distress call was made by the Mexican Navy’s tall ship Cuauhtémoc before it collided with the Brooklyn Bridge on May 17, leaving two crew members dead and 22 injured.
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which is leading the investigation, revealed that although the ship did request tugboat assistance just before the collision, no emergency signal or mayday was transmitted.
An NTSB investigator,...