Family killed in Hudson River helicopter crash booked sightseeing tour of NYC

Good over two months after a rupture between a protection power helicopter and an American Airlines (AAL) industrial plane sent each and each crashing into the Potomac River and killed all 67 aboard, one other aviation tragedy took discipline in New York City.

On April 11, Spanish tech govt Agustín Escobar and 4 other people of his family had been killed alongside the pilot when the helicopter they'd booked for a tour of the New York skyline crashed into the Hudson River.

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'Both the scamper of the helicopter and the propellor': Aviation educated describes fatal rupture

Witnesses on each and each the New York and New Jersey aspect described seeing harrowing scenes of objects of the single-engine Bell 206 helicopter falling from the sky into the water; video later confirmed that the airplane landed within the water in an inverted discipline whereas missing each and each a main rotor and a tail bloom.

"Bear in mind that the rotor blades on a helicopter, the big ones on the prime, are each and each the scamper of the helicopter and the propellor of the helicopter," jet pilot and aviation educated Arthur Alan Wolk rapid NBC Recordsdata. "While you lose the principle rotor blade, you're doomed. The helicopter falls savor a brick."

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While the identities of the victims weren't today launched when the rupture came about at approximately 3:18 p.m. on April 10, New York authorities later confirmed one to be CEO of Rail Infrastructure at Siemens Mobility Agustín Escobar. He had traveled to New York from Barcelona along with his spouse Mercè Camprubí Montal and their three younger of us venerable four, 5 and 11 years oldschool.

Your entire family of 5, who booked the sightseeing scuttle with New York Helicopter Tours, used to be killed alongside the 36-year-oldschool pilot.

'Our hearts scoot out to the family of those who had been on board'

"We're deeply saddened by the tragic helicopter rupture in which Agustín Escobar and his family misplaced their lives," a Siemens spokesperson said to Reuters. New York Mayor Eric Adams moreover issued a commentary announcing that "our hearts scoot out to the family of those who had been on board."

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When the helicopter landed within the river, a physique of workers of aviation, harbor, scuba and patrol rescue fashions arrived on the scene to drag out the victims but four died on the scene whereas one other two died of their accidents after being transported to a within reach sanatorium. The helicopter is within the intervening time restful submerged within the Hudson River as extra evacuation groups work to find it out for the investigation into what precipitated it to rupture.

Both Escobar and Camprubí Montal labored at Siemens for bigger than a decade; dilapidated colleagues described the 2 as "passionate" about their work within the rail and vitality sectors and eternally dedicated to their family of 5.

"He used to be a loving, fun father, a terribly great man," Siemens colleague Juan Ignacio Díaz said of Escobar to Spanish data outlets.

"Basically the most efficient thing I'm in a position to pronounce you is that we are devastated," New York Helicopter Charter CEO Michael Roth, rapid CNN. "I'm a father, a grandfather and my spouse hasn't stopped crying since this afternoon."

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