{"id":766911,"date":"2026-07-16T20:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/766911\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T20:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:03:10","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\/766911\/","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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/pilot-sean-johnson-new-york-helicopter-crash-matteson-illinois\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the pilot<\/a> died in the April 2025 crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the NTSB report, pieces of the helicopter&#8217;s main rotor blade and a severed bird wing were found on the ground and on rooftops about 2,000 feet away from where the wreckage was recovered.<\/p>\n<p>A specialist from the Smithsonian Institution&#8217;s feather identification lab conducted sampling of the wreckage, according to the report. Additional sampling was done by the NTSB&#8217;s lab to confirm the discovery of bird remains.<\/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":766912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,118472,40323,1999,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-766911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-helicopter-crash","tag-hudson-river","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}