Friday, April 11, 2025 - Six people are de@d after a tourist helicopter carrying a family from Spain “split in half” mid-air and spiraled out of the sky before crashing into the Hudson River Thursday afternoon, April 10, according to officials.
Dozens of
first responders rushed to the tragic scene after the Bell 206 aircraft,
apparently missing its rotors, plunged into the river near Pier 40 in Manhattan
near the Hoboken border of New Jersey around 3:15 p.m., the FDNY
said.
A top executive of the global technology company Siemens and his family were identified as five of the victims who were k!lled. The sixth victim was the pilot, whose identity has not been announced.
Agustin
Escobar, his wife Merce Camprubi Montal, and their three children had just
arrived in the Big Apple from Barcelona earlier in the day, according to law
enforcement sources.
The doomed chopper was owned and operated by New York Helicopter, a tour company in the Big Apple that touts itself for providing comfort and safety to customers.
“I’m absolutely devastated,”
CEO Michael Roth, who was visibly shaken, told The Post.
“The only
thing I know by watching a video of the helicopter falling down, that the main
rotor blades weren’t on the helicopter. And I haven’t seen anything like that
in my 30 years being in business, in the helicopter business.”
NYPD divers
recovered all six victims – four of whom were pronounced dead at the scene, and
two who “succumbed to their injuries” at a local hospital, police Commissioner
Jessica Tisch said.
Thursday’s
horrifying crash is one of several deadly tragedies involving tourist
helicopters in recent years.
Watch video
oof the latest crash below.BREAKING: At least three people are dead after a helicopter crashed into the Hudson River. Five people were reportedly onboard including children.
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