A sightseeing helicopter in New York City broke up in the middle of the air on Thursday and fell on the head against the Hudson River to kill the pilot and a family of Spanish tourists from the recent US airfare, the officials shared.
The victims included the leadership attorney of Siemens Agustin Escobar, his wife Merce Colnubi Montal and three children, in addition to the pilot, a person who was informed about the examination shared the associated press. The person could not publicly discuss details of the investigation and spoke to the AP support of anonymity. Other media, including ABC News and the New York Times, reported the same information and cited law enforcement sources.
Photos that were posted on the helicopter company’s website showed that the couple and his children smiled shortly before the start of the flight.
Eric Adams, Mayor of New York City, said that the flight began in a helicopter landing area in the city center around 3 p.m. local time and the dead – including three children – was recovered and removed from the water. The flight north along the skyline from Manhattan and then south towards the Statue of Liberty took less than 18 minutes.
The video of the crash showed that parts of the aircraft through the air into the water near the coast of Jersey City, NJ, a witness, Bruce Wall, plunged there that he had seen that he “fell apart” in the middle of the air, and the tail and the propeller come off. The propeller was still turning without the plane when it fell, he said.
Dani Horbiak was in her house in Jersey City when she heard what sounded like “several shots in a row, almost in the air”. She looked out of her window and saw the helicopter “in several pieces into the river”.
The helicopter turned uncontrollably with “a bunch of smoke that came out” before he hit the water, said Lesly Camacho, a host in a restaurant on the river in Hoboken, NJ
Rescue boats circled the submerged aircraft within a few minutes after the end of a long maintenance pier for a ventilation tower that serves the Holland tunnel. The recovery crew lifted the mutilated helicopter from the water shortly after 8 p.m. with a floating crane.
The flight was operated by New York helicopter, officials said. Nobody answered the telephones in the company’s offices in New York and New Jersey.
A person who answered the phone in the owner of the owner of the owner, Michael Roth, rejected a statement. Roth told the New York Post that he was destroyed and had “no idea” why the crash happened.
“The only thing I know when you see a video of the helicopter’s download that the main wrestling blades were not on the helicopter,” he quoted him. He added that he hadn’t seen something like this in his helicopter business in his 30 years, but noticed: “These are machines and they break.”
E -mails that were looking for a statement were sent to lawyers who have represented Roth in the past.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) identified the helicopter as a bell 206, a model that is used in the aviation and government, including sightseeing companies, television stations and police authorities.
It was originally developed for the US Army before it was adjusted for other uses. Thousands have been manufactured over the years.
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said it would investigate.
The video of the crash indicates that a “catastrophic mechanical failure” had the pilot without chance to save the helicopter, said Justin Green, an aviation talent that was helicopter pilot in the marine corps.
It is possible that the helicopters’ main rotors hit the tail boom, break it apart and let the cabin fall freely, said Green.
“They were dead as soon as everything happened,” said Green. “There is no indication that you had control over the craft. No pilot could have prevented this accident if you have lost the elevators. It’s like a stone that falls to the ground. It is heartbreaking.”
The sky over Manhattan is routinely filled with both aircraft and helicopters, both private leisure aircraft as well as trade and tourist flights. Manhattan has several helicopters who whistle managing directors and others to target targets in the entire metropolitan area.
At least 38 people have died in helicopter accidents in New York City since 1977. Nine people were killed in a collision between an airplane and a tourist helicopter over the Hudson, and five died in 2018 when a charter helicopter that offered “Open Door” floge, went down into the East River.
The crash on Thursday was the first for a helicopter in the city, since in 2019 they met the roof of a skyscraper and killed the pilot.
The accidents – and the noises caused by helicopters – have repeatedly prompted some activists and civil servants to ban or restrict the traffic hub steps in Manhattan helicopter land.
Other recent crashes and close calls have already taken care of the safety of flying in the USA
Seven people were killed when a quarter of Philadelphia plunged into a quarter of Philadelphia in January. This happened two days after an American airline and a helicopter of the army in the air collided in Washington and killed 67, the fatal US air disaster of a generation.
