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All passengers and crew on New Orleans cruise ship survive crash with tanker on Mississippi River

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Source: The Daily Star

A tanker in New Orleans has apparently lost its steering and slammed into a docked river cruise boat with 180 passengers and crew aboard. The crash on Friday launched a massive rescue operation for passengers who plunged into the Mississippi…

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