The investigation into why a Mexican Navy training ship struck the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, shearing the top of its masts, will look into a possible engine failure and the role of a tug boat that assisted it in backing out of its pier,

The doomed sailors aboard the Mexican tall ship that crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge were participating in a touching tradition called “manning the yards,’’ which pays homage to host ports, at

The accident occurred when the majestic white training vessel Cuauhtémoc was departing from lower Manhattan’s Pier 17 on the East River shortly after sunset on Saturday.