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Article: Queen Mary 2 ramp falls, killing 13 Cruise ship workers were showing off world's largest liner
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 16, 2003
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ST. NAZAIRE, France -- A gangway on the world's largest cruise
ship, the Queen Mary 2, collapsed Saturday, killing 13 people and
injuring 32. Most were workers and their families on a special tour
of the nearly completed ship.
Dozens of people were on the ramp at the time of the accident,
which sent them plunging 50 feet to the ground and transformed the
luxury liner into a horrifying scene of bodies entangled in wreckage.
There was no immediate explanation of the cause of the collapse.
An investigation was under way.
The 21-story-tall ocean liner was dry-docked at an Atlantic
coastal shipyard for finishing touches before its maiden voyage,
scheduled for January. Britain's Cunard Lines, ...