{"id":279528,"date":"2025-04-11T11:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T11:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/tech-executive-and-his-family-die-after-sightseeing-helicopter-crashes-in-new-york\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T11:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T11:12:11","slug":"tech-executive-and-his-family-die-after-sightseeing-helicopter-crashes-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/tech-executive-and-his-family-die-after-sightseeing-helicopter-crashes-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech executive and his family die after sightseeing helicopter crashes in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A family of five Spanish tourists, including three children, have been killed in a helicopter crash in New York City.<\/p>\n

A New York City Hall spokesman identified two of those killed as Agustin Escobar, a Siemens executive, and Merce Camprubi Montal – believed to be his wife, NBC News reported.<\/p>\n

The pilot was also killed as the aircraft crashed into the Hudson River at around 3.17pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n

New York<\/a><\/strong> Police commissioner Jessica Tisch said divers had recovered all those on board from the helicopter, which was upside down in the water.<\/p>\n

“Four victims were pronounced dead on scene and two more were removed to local area hospitals, where sadly both succumbed to their injuries,” she said.<\/p>\n

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The Spanish president Pedro Sanchez called the news “devastating”.<\/p>\n

“An unimaginable tragedy. I share the grief of the victims’ loved ones at this heartbreaking time,” he wrote on X.<\/p>\n

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Rotor blade ‘flew off’<\/strong><\/p>\n

The aircraft was on a tourist flight of Manhattan, run by the New York Helicopters company.<\/p>\n

Witnesses described seeing the main rotor blade flying off moments before it dropped out the sky.<\/p>\n

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Lesly Camacho, a worker at a restaurant along the river in Hoboken, said she saw the helicopter spinning uncontrollably before it slammed into the water.<\/p>\n

“There was a bunch of smoke coming out. It was spinning pretty fast, and it landed in the water really hard,” she said.<\/p>\n

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Another witness said “the chopper blade flew off”.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know what happened to the tail, but it just straight up dropped,” Avi Rakesh told Sky’s US partner, NBC News.<\/p>\n

Video on social media showed parts of the Bell 206 helicopter tumbling through the air and landing in the river.<\/p>\n

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New York Mayor Eric Adams confirmed the six deaths and said authorities believed the tourists were from Spain.<\/p>\n

He said the flight had taken off from a downtown heliport at around 3pm.<\/p>\n

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The crash happened close to Pier 40 and the Holland tunnel, which links lower Manhattan’s Tribeca neighbourhood with Jersey City to its west.<\/p>\n

Tracking service Flight Radar 24 published what it said was the helicopter’s route, with the aircraft appearing to be in the sky for 15 minutes before the crash.<\/p>\n

The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have started an investigation.<\/p>\n

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Thursday’s incident comes less than three month after 67 people died when an army helicopter and American Airlines jet collided<\/a><\/strong> over the Potomac River in Washington DC.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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