{"id":279468,"date":"2025-04-11T09:48:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T09:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/siemens-executive-and-his-family-died-in-hudson-helicopter-crash\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T09:48:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T09:48:17","slug":"siemens-executive-and-his-family-died-in-hudson-helicopter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/siemens-executive-and-his-family-died-in-hudson-helicopter-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Siemens Executive and His Family Died in Hudson Helicopter Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/11\/world\/11int-spain-crash-victims\/11int-spain-crash-victims-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Siemens Executive and His Family Died in Hudson Helicopter Crash\" title=\"Siemens Executive and His Family Died in Hudson Helicopter Crash\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A Spanish executive who died along with four members of his family in a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/10\/nyregion\/helicopter-hudson-crash-victims.html\" title=\"\">helicopter crash near New York City<\/a> on Thursday was a top Siemens official whose international career was celebrated in his homeland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Consulate General of Spain in New York confirmed on Friday that five Spanish citizens \u2014 two parents and their three children \u2014 had died in the crash. Spanish officials identified the executive as Agust\u00edn Escobar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Officials have not named his wife or their children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Pedro S\u00e1nchez of Spain described the accident \u2014 in which a sightseeing helicopter plunged into the Hudson River, killing everyone onboard \u2014 as \u201can unimaginable tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI share the grief of the victims\u2019 loved ones at this heartbreaking time,\u201d Mr. S\u00e1nchez <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sanchezcastejon\/status\/1910476034123723196\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said on social media<\/a> in the early hours of Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The helicopter was touring New York City when it tumbled out of the sky and crashed into the river.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Two of the passengers were alive when divers pulled them from the frigid water, but they later died, New York City\u2019s police commissioner, Jessica S. Tisch, said at a news conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The pilot was also killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The cause of the crash is under investigation, the police commissioner said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Escobar was born in Puertollano, a small city in central Spain, Emiliano Garc\u00eda-Page, the region\u2019s leader, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/garciapage\/status\/1910572609579725069?t=tqSHv7GnJ9ARfrwN6YjyYA&amp;s=19\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said on social media<\/a>. The region had celebrated his achievements in 2023, naming him a \u201cfavorite son.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Friday morning, Mayor Miguel \u00c1ngel Ruiz of Puertollano said in a statement that the city \u201cmourns the loss of one of its most brilliant sons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Escobar led Siemens\u2019 rail infrastructure division from the company\u2019s Berlin office, according to his <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/agustinescobar\/details\/experience\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn profile<\/a>. Before that, he was the president and chief executive of Siemens Spain and previously worked for the technology giant in the United States and Brazil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">John Yoon<!-- --> and <!-- -->Rachel Chaundler<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/11\/world\/europe\/hudson-river-helicopter-crash-dead-spain-siemens-agustin-escobar.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Spanish executive who died along with four members of his family in a helicopter crash near New York City on Thursday was a top Siemens official whose international career was celebrated in his homeland. The Consulate General of Spain in New York confirmed on Friday that five Spanish citizens \u2014 two parents and their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/11\/world\/11int-spain-crash-victims\/11int-spain-crash-victims-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[216188,21,6836,710,17,3984,35739,83686,4559,9392,11843,1021],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279470,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279468\/revisions\/279470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}