Hableány

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Hableány
The Hableány 2017
The Hableány 2017
Ship data
flag HungaryHungary Hungary
Ship type Excursion boat
class Moskvich Class (Project 544)
Launch 1949
Whereabouts sank after collision
Ship dimensions and crew
length
27.75 m ( Lüa )
width 4.8 m
Draft Max. 0.89 m
displacement 50  t
Machine system
Machine
performance 		150 hp (110 kW)
Top
speed 		10.3 kn (19 km / h)

The Hableány ( German  mermaid ) was an excursion ship that sank in the Danube in Budapest on May 29, 2019 . 28 people were killed.

ship

The Hableány was built in 1949 in Cherson , Ukraine (then the Soviet Union ) and was a Moskvich-class ship . It was 27 meters long, powered by a 150 hp engine and offered space for 60 passengers . Since 2003 it has been operated by Panoráma-Deck Kft .

bad luck

procedure

On the evening of May 29, 2019, 35 people - 33 South Koreans and two Hungarian crew members - were on the ship on a routine trip to visit the banks of the Danube metropolis. At 21:05 there was a collision with the much larger river cruise ship Viking Sigyn under the Margaret Bridge , whereupon the Hableány capsized and sank within 30 seconds. Due to the bad weather, their passengers are said to have been below deck. Immediately after the accident, seven passengers were rescued from the water by other ships. At first there was talk of a turning maneuver by the Hableány sailing upstream in front of the bow of the Viking Sigyn ; Later it was said that the excursion ship had been pulled under the bridge into the suction of the large cruise ship.

A military ship at the site of the accident on May 30, 2019

At 9:15 p.m. the police received an emergency call, whereupon search and rescue operations by the police, fire brigade, disaster control and rescue services were initiated. Seven fatalities were found, 21 people were still missing. The rescued were cared for in hospitals because of hypothermia .

consequences

The next day, a military ship with divers reached the site of the accident to examine the wreck , which was about nine meters deep . The soldiers set up a diving platform. Initially, however, high water levels, strong currents and poor visibility prevented diving into the interior of the wreck.

Specialists from South Korea, ten divers from the Austrian task force Cobra and rescue divers from the Czech Republic traveled to Budapest to support the rescue. The wreck was precisely located using sonar .

The missing persons were looked for downstream on the Danube in Hungary and Serbia . More bodies were found a few days later, some up to 100 kilometers downstream. A week after the accident, 15 people were still missing.

The salvage of the Hableány by the Clark Ádám on June 11, 2019

On June 11th at six in the morning, the salvage of the wreck began immediately below the bridge with the pontoon crane "Clark Ádám". Divers attached the steel cables to the wreck six meters below the water level. Under observation by divers, the wreck came to the surface shortly after seven o'clock. Four other bodies were recovered from it, including the captain and a six-year-old girl. The Hableány was lifted onto a barge and transported to the free port on the Danube island of Csepel . After a thorough inspection of the wreck, the Budapest police confiscated it and arranged for it to be transferred to the port of Újpest .

The police then doubled the number of emergency services who took part in the search for the missing people. Watercraft, drones, helicopters and sonar were used, and a group of South Korean fire service divers supported the search. As of July 6th, one person was still missing. The South Korean team ended their search at the end of July 2019, the Hungarian side should continue the search until August 19, 2019. The last victim has not yet been found (as of May 2020).

Reactions

The South Korean President Moon Jae-in told the Hungarian government immediately after the disaster, continue to fully support the search for the still missing South Koreans. He thanked Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for the rescue operation. South Korea sent its own rescue team to Hungary. The nine rescue divers joined the rescue operation on Friday, May 31. The South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyeong-hwa also traveled to Hungary to hold a joint press conference with the Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó .

The captain of the Viking Sigyn was taken into custody. He was investigated for "criminal negligence" on a public waterway. Before the overtaking maneuver, he had neither attempted to contact Hableány by radio nor did he send a sound signal . He did not inform the police about this, they were contacted by passengers on an uninvolved excursion boat. An application for release on bail was denied for the time being; an appeals court granted the application on June 13, provided that the captain remains in Budapest and wears an electronic ankle bracelet . The amount of the deposit was set at 15 million forints (around € 46,700). Charges were brought against him in November 2019. In January 2020, the police also called for the captain of the Viking Idun to be arrested on suspicion of failure to provide assistance. The Viking Idun drove behind the Viking Sigyn during the accident , and its captain is said not to have stopped and participated in the rescue work. On March 11, 2020, the first preparatory hearing of the captain of the Viking Sigyn took place in a court in Budapest. Further preparatory hearings could not take place due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The start of the judicial process has been postponed to September 8, 2020.

See also

Web links

Commons : Hableány  - collection of images

Individual evidence

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