NYC helicopter inspect the helicopter to the Hudson River, Murder 6

New York (AP)-Tivel, given New York reviews, broke in mid-Thursday and crashed up into the Gudson River, killing a pilot and a family of five Spanish tourists in the latest US aviation disaster, officials said.

The victims included the Siemens Executive Director Agustin Escobar, his wife, the marriage of the Montal camp, the global manager of the company in energy technology, and three children, except the pilot, said the person who informed about the investigation. The person could not publicly discuss the details of the investigation and spoke under anonymity.

Photos posted on a helicopter web site showed that the couple and their children were smiling when they sat down just before the flight took off.

The flight left the helicopter in the city center for about 3 pm and lasted less than 18 minutes. Radar data showed that it flew north along Manhattan’s horizon and then returned south to the statue of Liberty.

Video about the disaster showed parts of the aircraft thrown through the air into the water near the Jersey Coastline -City, New Jersey.

Witnesses describe the immersion of the helicopter in the Hudson

The video on the mobile phone showed several rescue boats looking for a Gudson River when they responded to reports of a broken helicopter, which the authorities say that six people were killed.

AP AUDIO: NYC Familiarity with helicopters immersed in river, murder 6, including family of Spanish tourists

AP Correspondent Julie Walker reports the crash of helicopters in the waters near New -York, who died six.

Witness there, Bruce Wall, said he saw that he was “falling up” in the middle, with his tail and the main rotor. The main rotor was still spinning without a helicopter as it fell.

Horbiac data was in her house Jersey City when she heard that it sounds like “a few shooting in a row almost in the air.” She looked into her window and saw Choper “splashes in a few pieces into the river.”

The helicopter was unrestrained with a “smoke pile” before it crashed into the water, said Leslie Kamacho, a hostess in a restaurant along the river in Hoboken, New Jersey.

On the radio control of air traffic, you can hear the NYPD helicopter pilot, which says, “Please have a plane down. Dutch tunnel. Please keep your eyes open for any in the water.”

After five minutes, someone asks, “Hey, the best”, a link to the Nypd call sign: “What is happening there Holland tunnel?”

“The ship went down,” someone else replies.

Rescue boats traveled the flooded aircraft for a few minutes from the impact at the end of a long traveler for service for a ventilation tower serving the Holland tunnel. Recovery crews were lifted with non -suitable water from a water bicycle using a floating faucet.

The bodies were also removed from the river, said Mayor Eric Adams.

The flight was governed by the New York helicopters, officials said. No one answered phones at the company’s offices in New York and New Jersey.

The person who responded to the phone at the home of the owner Michael Roth, said he refused to comment. The mouth told The New York Post that he was devastated and had no “notion” why the accident happened.

“The only thing I know by watching a video of a falling helicopter, that the main rotor blades were not on the helicopter,” – quotes it. He added that he did not see that such 30 years in business with a helicopter, but said “These are cars, and they break.”

Emails looking for a comment were sent to lawyers who represented their mouths in the past.

The Federal Aviation Administration has identified a helicopter as Bell 206, a model widely used in commercial and government aviation, including through review companies, television stations and police. It was originally designed for the US Army before it was adapted for other purposes. Thousands have been made for many years.

The National Transport Security Council has stated that it would investigate.

Tragedy strikes family from Spain

Escobar worked for Siemens technology for more than 27 years, recently as the Global CEO of Railway Infrastructure on Siemens mobility, according to his account LinkedIn. At the end of 2022, he briefly became President and CEO of Siemens of Spain. In the post on the position, he thanked his family: “My endless source of energy and happiness, for their unconditional support, love … and patience.”

Escobar regularly published the importance of stability in the railway industry and often traveled internationally to work, including journey to India and the UK over the last month. He has also been the Vice -President of the German Chamber of Commerce of Spain since 2023.

Camprubí Montal worked in Barcelona, Spain, for Energy Technology Company Siemens Energy, including his global commercialization manager and as a digitization manager, her account reports.

That could have caused an accident

Video about catastrophe suggested that “catastrophic mechanical failure” left a pilot without chance to save a helicopter, said Justin GreenAviation lawyer who was a helicopter pilot in the Marines.

The main rotors of the helicopter may have struck the tail boom, breaking it and as a result of which the cabin falls freely, – said Green.

“They were dead as all that happened,” Green said. “There are no signs that they had any control of craft. No pilot could prevent this accident as soon as they lost the lifts. It’s like a rock falling to the ground. It’s a heartbeat.”

AP AUDIO: A family of Spanish tourists died in a helicopter crashing into the Hudson River

AP Correspondent Julie Walker reports a deadly crash in the waters of New York.

The sky above Manhattan is regularly filled with planes and helicopters, both private recreational aircraft and commercial and tourist flights. Manhattan has several helicopters, from which business executives and others are interrupted to directions throughout the metropolis.

At least 38 people were killed in a helicopter crash In New York since 1977. The clash between the plane and the tourist helicopter over Gudson in 2009 killed nine people, and five died in 2018, when a charter helicopter offering “Open Doors” flights went down to East River.

New -York helicopters also owned Bell 206 who lost power and made Hudson Emergency Landing During the excursion to the review in June 2013. The pilot managed to land safely, and he and passengers – a family of four Swedes – were not injured. WITH Found National Transport Safety Council that the flub for maintenance and anomaly of lubrication of the engine led to the power cutting.

The crash on Thursday was the first for the helicopter in the city, as one got to the roof of the skyscraper in 2019, died of the pilot.

Crashes – and noise caused by helicopters – have repeatedly forced some activists and community officials to propose to ban or limit traffic on Manhattan helicopters.

Other recent crashes and closed calls have already left some people Is worried about flight safety in the USA

Seven people They were killed when in January in January they got to the Philadelphia neighborhood. It happened two days after the American Airlines aircraft and the army helicopter collided in the middle in Washington in A deadly air audit in the US in generation.

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Reporters of Associated Press Mike Balsamo and Philip Marcelo in New -York and Halli Golden in Seattle contributed to this report.