By veerumusic49@gmail.com helicopter crash
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City sightseeing helicopter broke apart in midair Thursday and fell upside-down into the Hudson River, killing the pilot and a family of five Spanish tourists in the latest U.S. aviation accident, officials said.
A person briefed on the inquiry told The Associated Press that in addition to the pilot, the fatalities were Siemens executive Agustin Escobar, his wife, Mercè Camprubí Montal, a worldwide manager at an energy technology company, and three children. The individual spoke on condition of anonymity and was not permitted to publicly discuss the investigation’s specifics.
The couple and their kids were seen grinning as they boarded shortly before the trip took off in pictures that were uploaded to the helicopter company’s website.
The less than 18-minute trip took off from a downtown heliport at approximately 3 p.m. It sailed north along the skyline of Manhattan, then back south toward the Statue of Liberty, according to radar data.
Parts of the aircraft were seen falling through the air and into the water close to Jersey City, New Jersey’s shoreline in the crash footage.
Dani Horbiak heard what sounded like “many gunshots in a row, almost, in the air” when she was at her house in Jersey City. She looked out the window and witnessed the chopper “splash in numerous pieces into the river.”
Lesly Camacho, a hostess at a restaurant by the river in Hoboken, New Jersey, said the chopper was spinning erratically with “a bunch of smoke shooting out” before it crashed into the water.
On air traffic control