{"id":297962,"date":"2026-07-16T19:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T19:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/297962\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T19:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T19:30:08","slug":"deadly-new-york-helicopter-crash-in-hudson-river-last-year-most-likely-caused-by-bird-strike-ntsb-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/297962\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly New York helicopter crash in Hudson River last year most likely caused by bird strike, NTSB says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bird strike most likely caused the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/hudson-river-helicopter-crash-ntsb-preliminary-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">helicopter crash<\/a> in the Hudson River  that killed six people near New York City last year, according to a National Transportation Safety Board report released Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The NTSB found bird remains in the wreckage of the Bell 206L-4 helicopter and the surrounding area.<\/p>\n<p>A family of five from Spain, including three children, and the pilot died in the April 2025 crash.<\/p>\n<p>This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/Tim-McNicholas\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim  McNicholas<\/a> and <\/p>\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/jesse-zanger\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jesse  Zanger<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p>\n                Go deeper with The Free Press\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bird strike most likely caused the helicopter crash in the Hudson River that killed six people near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40313,3376,9,24,11,10],"class_list":["post-297962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-helicopter-crash","tag-hudson-river","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297962","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=297962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}