Investigators seek why tanker 'lost control' as it hit cruise ship in New Orleans
Verified: 54 outlets in 25 countries have reported this story since Nov 13, 11 of them from the United States. 32 injured, according to 2 outlets.
Passengers of a river cruise boat in New Orleans had to be pulled from the Mississippi river on Friday after a tanker collided with the paddlewheeler as it sat in dock, causing it to capsize. Those aboard desperately gripped the railings of the American Heritage as it started taking on water and tipping over, sparking a major emergency response. In what Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry hailed as a “miracle on the Mississippi,” all 197 passengers made it to safety. “There had to be some kind of divine, godly intervention for this outcome,” Mayor Helena Moreno said Saturday. Moreno said 32 people…
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Two or more outlets reported this story and its reliability score reached 65%, so WorldPulse marks it verified. That means more than one outlet says so, not that it is proven true.
Who reported it
From the headlines of its reports in its last 2 days, each with the outlets that report it.
- Injured · 2 figures, newest first
- 322 outlets: akipress.com, wwno.org· latest Nov 14, 5:41 AM UTCTanker collides with cruise ship on Mississippi River, injuring 32 in New Orleans ↗
- more than 301 outlet: newswire.lk· latest Nov 14, 4:29 AM UTCOver 30 injured after tanker collides with docked riverboat in New Orleans ↗
- Rescued · 2 figures, newest first
- 1802 outlets: en.protothema.gr, theadvocate.com· latest Nov 14, 6:13 AM UTCMiracle on the Mississippi”: Cruise ship capsizes after tanker collision in New Orleans, all 180 aboard rescued ↗
- more than 1001 outlet: samoaglobalnews.com· latest Nov 14, 5:55 AM UTCMore Than 100 Rescued After Tanker Collides With Cruise Ship in New Orleans ↗
11 outlets from the United States, where the story is: AOL, Bloomberg, CBS News and 8 more · how we count
- Nov 13, 8:12 PM UTCFirst reportTanker collides with cruise ship on Mississippi River in New Orleanstheguardian.com ↗
- Nov 13, 8:19 PM UTC+7 minTanker collides with river cruise ship carrying more than 130 people in New Orleans – latest updatestheguardian.com (again) ↗
- Verified: a second independent outlet reported itNov 13, 8:37 PM UTC · +24 min
- Nov 13, 8:49 PM UTC+36 min129 people aboard cruise ship struck by tanker in New Orleans, officials sayglobalnews.ca ↗
- Nov 14, 5:58 PM UTC+22 hMan who went into water after New Orleans cruise ship collision speaks out4029tv.com ↗
- Nov 14, 8:53 PM UTC+25 h· you’re reading thisInvestigators seek why tanker 'lost control' as it hit cruise ship in New Orleanscnn.com ↗
- Nov 14, 8:54 PM UTC+25 hNew Orleans port sues to get control of tanker that crashed into cruise shipglobalnews.ca (again) ↗
- Nov 14, 9:07 PM UTC+25 hTanker ‘lost control’ and hit cruise ship in New Orleanscbc.bb ↗
[Claude] All three reports describe the same New Orleans tanker collision with a docked river cruise ship on the Mississippi, with no conflicting facts.
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