{"id":297958,"date":"2026-07-16T19:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T19:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/297958\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T19:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T19:27:12","slug":"ntsb-finds-evidence-of-bird-strike-before-fatal-new-york-helicopter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/297958\/","title":{"rendered":"NTSB finds evidence of bird strike before fatal New York helicopter crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WASHINGTON, July 16 (Reuters) &#8211; The National Transportation \u200cSafety Board said \u200cThursday it found evidence of \u200ba bird strike before a tourist helicopter plummeted upside down \u200cinto New \u2060York City&#8217;s Hudson River in April \u20602025 killing all six people on \u200bboard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The accident \u200bkilled \u200ba Spanish \u200cfamily with three children, including Agustin Escobar, CEO of Rail Infrastructure at Siemens Mobility, \u200cthe train transportation \u200barm of \u200bGermany-based \u200btechnology company \u200cSiemens. The NTSB said \u200bit \u200bhad validated evidence of a bird \u200bstrike \u200con the Bell 206L-4 \u200btourist helicopter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by \u200bDavid Shepardson)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, July 16 (Reuters) &#8211; The National Transportation \u200cSafety Board said \u200cThursday it found evidence of \u200ba bird&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[113350,113349,46252,6661,9,24,55,54,56,113348,113351],"class_list":["post-297958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-agustin-escobar","tag-bird-strike","tag-helicopter","tag-national-transportation-safety-board","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-rail-infrastructure","tag-spanish-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}