Five Spanish tourists die in New York when their helicopter rushed into the Hudson River | International
A dense fog could be behind the helicopter accident that crashed on the Hudson river, in front of Manhattan (New York)After a few minutes of an irregular flight, according to the video surveillance cameras of buildings near the accident site, on the banks of New Jersey. Part of the device of the device stands out from the surface of the water, while the police ships and the New York firefighters surround the remains in frenetic research and rescue works. As reported by the local station of the ABC television network, five Spanish tourists died in the accident. The plane, which fell on the river shortly before the thirty in the afternoon (local time, another six hours in Peninsular Spain), transported two adults and three children. Three of the victims died in the clash and the other two in the hospital they were transferred to. The pilot’s body, a sixth person on board, was also saved, confirmed the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, in an apparition before the press. The embassy confirmed the family the family.
The fans of the fans show how, after a ramp of only 30 minutes since it took off by a Manehattan Eliport of Bassi, the device is partially disintegrated in the air, with the main rotor and the tail arm, in addition to the rotor blades, completely detaching itself from the fuselage, although they continued to turn as they fell into the water, which this Thursday recorded a temperature of five degrees. A witness told the local eyewitness news station that saw the helicopter crash. “I heard a strong click … I looked beyond … and I was able to see a helicopter falling on that side (New Jersey) and splashing in the water,” said the witness. “I didn’t see anyone going out,” he added.
Police ships and other rescue boats surrounded what seems to be a poured helicopter floating in the river, next to one of the ventilation towers of the Holland tunnel, one of the metropolitans that connects the New Jersey and Manhattan. Witnesses on social networks said they had seen a helicopter in trouble before the water rushed. Tourist helicopters usually fly on the river, transporting tourists from the Lower Manhattan and New Jersey Helipuertos, as well as businessmen who want to avoid complications of Manhattan traffic.
“I saw him fall from heaven. I heard five or six strong noises that played almost hit in the sky and I saw how the pieces went out, then I saw him fall on the river,” said Dani Horbiak, who saw the accident from the window of his apartment. Another witness said he thought “that he was a paconter similar to that of a sound bomb or something like that” when he heard the roar. The authorities believe that the helicopter is a 206 bell.
According to the live history of the head of the head of the ABC television network, located right in front, on the New York coast of the river, the police and firefighters are helping the search and rescue of possible survivors with the background noise of the sirens of emergency vehicles, which fell from the highway adjacent to the river to help in an emergency. A few meters towards the inside, the fall of the nave would have had an impact on residential buildings, many of which are luxury, which pull the bank of the Jersey City river. The New York Police has issued a warning sign for motorists who prevent them from cutting traffic in the immediate vicinity, while the safety forces of the security forces intensified in the area.
The authorities are trying to determine the causes of the accident and, above all, of the strange way in which it is walked. The commissioner of the New York Police Department, Jessica Tisch, explained that the helicopter after take -off had followed a southern trajectory, the island of the surrounding governments to approach the statue of freedom, before heading north on the Hudson New York slope and then to return south from the New Jersey Coast, where he crashed south of Hoboken.
The helicopter tour of the Hudson river to contemplate the Skyline De Manhattan is one of the most famous tourist offers in the city. Several elipuertos at the southern end of the Manhattan peninsula communicate with others on the river bank in New Jersey for short movements or tourist routes. At least 32 people have died in accidents in helicopters in New York since 1977, The most recent in 2019When a helicopter used for executive trips collided with the roof of a Manhattan skyscraper in a limited airspace and the pilot died. A year earlier, in 2018, the most fatal had occurred until this Thursday, when a plane flown with five tourists aboard the head and sank in the river. Only the pilot survived.
