Viking Aegir accidents and incidents
CruiseMapper's Viking Aegir cruise ship accidents, incidents and law news reports relate to a 190-passenger vessel owned by Viking Cruises. Our Viking Aegir accidents page contains reports made by using official data from renown online news media sources, US Coast Guard and Wikipedia.
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- collision/allision - 2022 (with a bridge in Slovakia)
06 May 2022Ship Collision / AllisionOn May 6, 2022 (at ~3:40 am Slovakia time / 1:40 UTC) the Viking ship Aegir hit a rail bridge pillar while navigating on the Danube in Slovakia. The accident happened near Komarno (a town at the confluence of the rivers Danube and Vah), approx 100 km / 60 mi from Bratislava (the country's capital city). The collision resulted in serious bow damages (including to the radar equipment) and 11 injured, of whom 8 were hospitalized. No oil leakage was reported. Slovakia's Minister of Transportation (Andrej Dolezal) commented that the crash was due to Captain's “sudden medical indisposition”. Note: Actually, this type of marine accident is called “allision” (striking a fixed object) as opposed to “collision” (striking another vessel). |
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