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Hudson River helicopter crash: Who were the victims?
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Apr 11, 2025
A NYC tourist helicopter appeared to fall apart midair on Thursday afternoon and crash into the Hudson River, killing a family of three children and two adults visiting from Spain. The pilot was also killed. FOX 5 NY's Robert Moses has the latest details.
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Investigators are working hard to determine what caused yesterday's tragic helicopter crash on the Hudson
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That's right, the pilot and a family of five on board for a sightseeing tour. All of them were killed
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Good Days Robert Moses is at the downtown Manhattan heliport with more details this morning. Robert, what's going on
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Dan and Tishani, the chopper, departed from this heliport on the East River at 2.59 p.m
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18 minutes later, the 911 call started pouring in from people who saw the chopper go down in the Hudson River
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That triggered an enormous emergency response. Unfortunately, there would be no survivors
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Last night, water cascaded off the mangled fuselage of the sightseeing helicopter
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as a crane lifted it out of the Hudson and onto a waiting barge
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Police secured other pieces of the doomed chopper for the investigation into what caused it to fall out of the sky
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The Bell 206, carrying a family of five from Spain along with a pilot
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left from the downtown Manhattan heliport right before 3 yesterday afternoon. It flew south towards the Statue of Liberty and then north
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reaching the George Washington Bridge at 3.08 before turning back south. Chilling videos show its final seconds
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A rotor blade appeared to fly off. At 317 police received multiple 911 calls reporting a chopper in the water The propeller just exploded and scattered right And then after that we saw the plane was just spiraling down like
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going from left to right like that. And we were like, oh my God, oh my God. Among the dead are
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Agustin Escobar, an executive with the technology company Siemens, along with his wife, Merce
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Compruby, Montal, and their three children. The pilot has not been identified. New York
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helicopter operated the flight. The CEO, Michael Roth, told us that he doesn't know what went wrong
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I'm a father and a grandfather, and to have children on there, I'm devastated. I'm absolutely
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devastated, he said, and I haven't seen anything like that in my 30 years being in business
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The investigation is ongoing, and we have the entire family members, we're lifting them up in prayer
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According to the New York Times, the company that operated this helicopter has had some mechanical issues in the past
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Back in 2013, one of its choppers lost power and had to make an emergency landing on the Hudson River
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And then two years later, another of its choppers crashed while hovering about 20 feet or so above the ground in northern New Jersey
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Luckily, in those cases, there were no fatalities. A much different story, though, yesterday
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Dan and Tishani, back to you. Probably. Thank you very much
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