NYC walking from the helicopter slammed into the river, killing 6, including the family of Spanish tourists star-news.press/wp

New York – New York CityJeliji helicopter parted in Edair on Thursday and crashed upside down in the Hudson River, killing the pilot and family of five Spanish tourists in the latest American aircraft disaster, officials said.

The Mayor Eric Adams said that the flight began at the center of Heliport for about 15 hours, and dead – including three children – were drawn and removed from the water. The flight in the north along the heavenly Manhettan and then south towards the statue of freedom lasted less than 18 minutes.

The crash video showed parts of the aircraft that indulges in the air into the water near the coast of the city of Jersey, New Jersey. The witness there, Bruce Wall, he said he saw that he was “falling apart” in Midai, with a tail and propeller that descend. The propeller was still twisted without helicopters as it fell.

Dani Horbiak was in his City Home jersey when she heard what sounded like “a few shootings in a row, almost in the air.” She looked through her window and saw a chopper “spraying in a few pieces in the river.”

The helicopter spoke uncontrollably with a “pile of smoke that comes out” before he slammed into the water, said Lesly Camacho, a housewife in a restaurant by Rijeka in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Rescue ships were surrounded by sunken aircraft within minutes from the impact near the end of the long maintenance pier for the Dutch tunnel. The crews for recovery raised a foggy helicopter from the water immediately after 20 hours using a floating crane.

The flight was managed by New York helicopters, officials said. No one responded to phones in the company’s offices in New York and New Jersey.

The person who answered the phone at the company owner Michael Roth, refused to comment. Roth said New York Post that was devastated and had “No idea” why the collision took place.

“The only thing I know looking at the video records of the helicopter that falls, that the main blades of the rotor were not in the helicopter,” the post quoted it. He added that he did not see something like that for 30 years in the helicopter, but he noted, “These are machines, and they break.”

E-mails looking for a comment were sent to lawyers representing Roth in the past.

The Federal Air Force Governance identified the helicopter as a bell 206, the model is widely used in commercial and government aviation, including sightseeing, TV news and police. It was initially developed for an American army before adjusting for other purposes. Thousands were produced over the years.

The National Transportation Security Committee said to investigate.

The video of the cross suggests that “catastrophic mechanical malfunction” left the pilot without a chance of preserving a helicopter, he said Justin GreenA aviation lawyer who was a helicopter pilot in the marine corpus.

It is possible that the main rotors of helicopter hit the tail carrier, breaking it and cause the cab to release the fall, the green said.

“They were dead as soon as everything happened,” said green. “There are no indications that they had control over the craft. No pilot could prevent that accident after lost the elevators. It’s like a rock that falls to the ground. It’s a heart.”

The sky over Manhattan are routinely filled with aircraft and helicopters, and private recreational planes and commercial and tourist flights. Manhattan has several helipads from which business leaders and other pebbles into destinations throughout the Metropolitan.

At least 38 people died in helicopter accidents In New York since 1977. A collision between the aircraft and the Tourist helicopter over Hudson in 2009. He killed nine people, and five died in 2018. year when she attended charter helicopter.

New York helicopters also owned a bell 206 that lost power and made Urgent landing on Hudson During tour tour in June 2013. years. The pilot managed to land safely, and he and passengers – the family four Swedes – they were unusual. The Found National Security Committee for Transportation That the fluttering for maintenance and anomalium lubrication of the engine led to a power failure.

On Thursday was the first for the helicopter in the city, because one hit the roof of the skyscraper in 2019. Killing the pilot.

Accidents – and noise caused by helicopters – they have repeatedly led some activists and community officials to propose a ban on or restricting traffic to Manhettan Heliports.

Other recent collisions and close calls have already left some people worried about flight safety In the US

Seven people They were killed when the medical traffic plane landed into the neighborhood in Philadelphia in January. This happened for two days after the American Airplanes and Military Helicopter collided in Midai in Washington in A more detailed American air disaster in the generation.