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In this photo taken from video, a helicopter falls from the sky into the Hudson River , Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Jersey City, N.J. (Bruce Wall via AP)<\/p>\n
In this photo taken from video, a helicopter falls from the sky into the Hudson River , Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Jersey City, N.J. (Bruce Wall via AP)<\/p>\n
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Cellphone video showed multiple rescue boats searching through the Hudson River as they responded to a report of a crashed helicopter that authorities say killed six people.<\/p>\n
Witnesses describe the helicopter\u2019s plunge into the Hudson<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n \n AP AUDIO: NYC sightseeing helicopter plunges into river, killing 6, including family of Spanish tourists\n <\/p>\n AP correspondent Julie Walker reports on a helicopter crash in the waters off new York City that killed six.<\/p>\n A witness there, Bruce Wall, said he saw it \u201cfalling apart\u201d in midair, with the tail and main rotor coming off. The main rotor was still spinning without the helicopter as it fell.<\/p>\n Dani Horbiak was at her Jersey City home when she heard what sounded like \u201cseveral gunshots in a row, almost, in the air.\u201d She looked out her window and saw the chopper \u201csplash in several pieces into the river.\u201d<\/p>\n The helicopter was spinning uncontrollably with \u201ca bunch of smoke coming out\u201d before it slammed into the water, said Lesly Camacho, a hostess at a restaurant along the river in Hoboken, New Jersey.<\/p>\n On air traffic control radio, an NYPD helicopter pilot can be heard saying, \u201cBe advised, you do have an aircraft down. Holland Tunnel. Please keep your eyes open for anybody in the water.\u201d<\/p>\n About five minutes after that, someone asks, \u201cHey Finest,\u201d a reference to the NYPD\u2019s call sign, \u201cwhat\u2019s going on over there by the Holland Tunnel?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe ship went down,\u201d someone else responds.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) personnels carry a stretcher at Pier 40, where a helicopter went down in the Hudson River between Manhattan and the New Jersey waterfront, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo\/Yuki Iwamura)<\/p>\n The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) personnels carry a stretcher at Pier 40, where a helicopter went down in the Hudson River between Manhattan and the New Jersey waterfront, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo\/Yuki Iwamura)<\/p>\n Add AP News on Google <\/p>\n Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Read More<\/p>\n \n A crane vessel arrives at the scene where a helicopter crashed into the Hudson River, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo\/Seth Wenig)\n <\/p>\n A crane vessel arrives at the scene where a helicopter crashed into the Hudson River, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo\/Seth Wenig)<\/p>\n Add AP News on Google <\/p>\n Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Read More<\/p>\n \n New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks during a press conference at Pier 40, where a helicopter went down in the Hudson River between Manhattan and the New Jersey waterfront, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo\/Yuki Iwamura)\n <\/p>\n New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks during a press conference at Pier 40, where a helicopter went down in the Hudson River between Manhattan and the New Jersey waterfront, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo\/Yuki Iwamura)<\/p>\n Add AP News on Google <\/p>\n Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Read More<\/p>\n Rescue boats circled the submerged aircraft within minutes of impact near the end of a long maintenance pier for a ventilation tower serving the Holland Tunnel. Recovery crews hoisted the mangled helicopter out of the water just after 8 p.m. using a floating crane.<\/p>\n The bodies were also recovered from the river, Mayor Eric Adams said.<\/p>\n The flight was operated by New York Helicopters, officials said. No one answered the phones at the company\u2019s offices in New York and New Jersey. <\/p>\n A person who answered the phone at the home of the company\u2019s owner, Michael Roth, said he declined to comment. Roth told the New York Post he was devastated and had \u201cno clue\u201d why the crash happened.<\/p>\n \u201cThe only thing I know by watching a video of the helicopter falling down, that the main rotor blades weren\u2019t on the helicopter,\u201d the Post quoted him as saying. He added that he had not seen such a thing happen during his 30 years in the helicopter business, but noted: \u201cThese are machines, and they break.\u201d<\/p>\n Emails seeking comment were sent to attorneys who have represented Roth in the past.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Divers investigate the scene where a helicopter crashed into the Hudson River, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo\/Seth Wenig)<\/p>\n Divers investigate the scene where a helicopter crashed into the Hudson River, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo\/Seth Wenig)<\/p>\n Add AP News on Google <\/p>\n Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Read More<\/p>\n The Federal Aviation Administration identified the helicopter as a Bell 206, a model widely used in commercial and government aviation, including by sightseeing companies, TV news stations and police. It was initially developed for the U.S. Army before being adapted for other uses. Thousands have been manufactured over the years.<\/p>\n The National Transportation Safety Board said it would investigate.<\/p>\n Tragedy strikes a family from Spain<\/p>\n Escobar worked for the tech company Siemens for more than 27 years, most recently as global CEO for rail infrastructure at Siemens Mobility, according to his LinkedIn account. In late 2022 he briefly became president and CEO of Siemens Spain. In a post about the position, he thanked his family: \u201cmy endless source of energy and happiness, for their unconditional support, love … and patience.\u201d<\/p>\n Escobar regularly posted about the importance of sustainability in the rail industry and often traveled internationally for work, including journeying to India and the UK in the past month. He also was vice president of the German Chamber of Commerce for Spain since 2023.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are deeply saddened by the tragic helicopter crash in which Agustin Escobar and his family lost their lives. Our heartfelt condolences go out to all their loved ones,\u201d Siemens said in a statement early Friday.<\/p>\n Camprub\u00ed Montal worked in Barcelona, Spain, for energy technology company Siemens Energy for about seven years, including as its global commercialization manager and as a digitalization manager, according to her LinkedIn account. <\/p>\n Spanish regional government officials said the family resided in Barcelona.<\/p>\n \u201c(I am) dismayed by the tragic helicopter accident in the Hudson River in New York which cost the lives of six people, five of which were members of a Barcelona family,\u201d Catalan regional president Salvador Illa wrote on X.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n First responders walk along Pier 40, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in New York, across from where a helicopter went down in the Hudson River in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo\/Jennifer Peltz)<\/p>\n First responders walk along Pier 40, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in New York, across from where a helicopter went down in the Hudson River in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo\/Jennifer Peltz)<\/p>\n Add AP News on Google <\/p>\n Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Read More<\/p>\n Another regional official said Agustin Escobar was originally from Puertollano, a town in central Spain.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to express my sorrow for the traffic helicopter accident in New York that claimed the lives of Agust\u00edn Escobar and his family,\u201d Castilla La Mancha regional president Emiliano Garc\u00eda-Page wrote on X. \u201cAgust\u00edn is native of Puertollano and in 2023 we named him a Favorite Son of Castilla La Mancha.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n First responders stand on a pier at the scene where a helicopter crashed into the Hudson River, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo\/Seth Wenig)<\/p>\n First responders stand on a pier at the scene where a helicopter crashed into the Hudson River, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo\/Seth Wenig)<\/p>\n Add AP News on Google <\/p>\n Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Read More<\/p>\n What may have caused the crash<\/p>\n Video of the crash suggested that a \u201ccatastrophic mechanical failure\u201d left the pilot with no chance to save the helicopter, said Justin Green<\/a>, an aviation lawyer who was a helicopter pilot in the Marine Corps.<\/p>\n It is possible the helicopter\u2019s main rotors struck the tail boom, breaking it apart and causing the cabin to free fall, Green said.<\/p>\n \u201cThey were dead as soon as whatever happened happened,\u201d Green said. \u201cThere\u2019s no indication they had any control over the craft. No pilot could have prevented that accident once they lost the lifts. It\u2019s like a rock falling to the ground. It\u2019s heartbreaking.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n AP AUDIO: Family of Spanish tourists died in helicopter crash into Hudson River\n <\/p>\n AP correspondent Julie Walker reports on a deadly helicopter crash in the New York City waters.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As seen from Pier 40 in New York, police and fire crews from New York and New Jersey respond to the scene Thursday, April 10, 2025, where a helicopter went down in the Hudson River between Manhattan and the New Jersey waterfront. (AP Photo\/Yuki Iwamura)<\/p>\n As seen from Pier 40 in New York, police and fire crews from New York and New Jersey respond to the scene Thursday, April 10, 2025, where a helicopter went down in the Hudson River between Manhattan and the New Jersey waterfront. (AP Photo\/Yuki Iwamura)<\/p>\n Add AP News on Google <\/p>\n Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Read More<\/p>\n The skies over Manhattan are routinely filled with planes and helicopters, both private recreational aircraft and commercial and tourist flights. Manhattan has several helipads from which business executives and others are whisked to destinations throughout the metropolitan area.<\/p>\n At least 38 people have died in helicopter accidents<\/a> in New York City since 1977. A collision between a plane and a tourist helicopter over the Hudson in 2009 killed nine people, and five died in 2018 when a charter helicopter offering \u201copen door\u201d flights went down into the East River.<\/p>\n New York Helicopters also owned a Bell 206 that lost power and made an emergency landing on the Hudson<\/a> during a sightseeing tour in June 2013. The pilot managed to land safely and he and the passengers \u2014 a family of four Swedes \u2014 were uninjured. The National Transportation Safety Board found<\/a> that a maintenance flub and an engine lubrication anomaly led to the power cutoff.<\/p>\n Thursday\u2019s crash was the first for a helicopter in the city since one hit the roof of a skyscraper in 2019, killing the pilot.<\/p>\n The accidents and the noise caused by helicopters have repeatedly led some community activists and officials to propose banning or restricting traffic at Manhattan heliports.<\/p>\n Other recent crashes and close calls have already left some people worried about the safety of flying<\/a> in the U.S.<\/p>\n Seven people<\/a> were killed when a medical transport plane plummeted into a Philadelphia neighborhood in January. That happened two days after an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter collided in midair in Washington in the deadliest U.S. air disaster<\/a> in a generation.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n Associated Press reporters Mike Balsamo and Philip Marcelo in New York, Hallie Golden in Seattle and Joseph Wilson in Barcelona, Spain, contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A New York City sightseeing helicopter broke apart in midair Thursday and crashed upside-down…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7339,69423,113524,113529,113526,113527,81,417,40707,113528,113531,75,113532,6661,9,24,6658,56,4938,63,65,64,113374,113525,2208,113530,421,65513],"class_list":["post-298408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-accidents","tag-barcelona","tag-boat-and-ship-accidents","tag-bruce-wall","tag-dani-horbiak","tag-emiliano-garca-page","tag-eric-adams","tag-general-news","tag-helicopter-crashes","tag-justin-green","tag-lesly-camacho","tag-manhattan","tag-michael-roth","tag-national-transportation-safety-board","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-wire","tag-ny","tag-ny-state-wire","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-siemens-ag","tag-siemens-energy-ag","tag-spain","tag-spain-government","tag-u-s-news","tag-waterways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298408","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=298408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784261504_731_.jpeg\")
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