6 dead after a helicopter crashed in the Hudson River off Manhattan

Officials said a helicopter separated in the middle of the air on Thursday and crashed upside down in the Hudson River between Manhattan and the New Jersey waterproof, killing a family of Spanish tourists, including three children, in the last high -level flight in the United States.

The mayor of New York City Eric Adams said that all the deceased had been recovered and removed from the water.

New York City Fire Fire Department said it had received a report on a water helicopter at 3:17 pm Easter.

Social media video clips showed that the plane is mostly mired, upside down in the water.

The witness Bruce Wall said he saw the helicopter “collapsing” in the air, with a tail and fan. He said that the fan was still going on without the plane while it crashed.

Leslly Kamacho, a hostess at a restaurant along the river in Hopockin, New Jersey, said she saw the helicopter revolving in an irreplaceable way before turning in the water.

She said in an interview on the phone: “There was a group of smoke coming out.

The video posted on social media showed parts of the helicopter that fired in the water, and the movable planes are flooded, where the rescue boats rotate.

The National Transport Safety Council for investigation

The sky was cloudy at the time, but the vision of the river was not very weak. Rescue sets had to deal with water temperatures about 7 ° C

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has identified the helicopter as a Bell 206, a model used on a large scale in commercial and governmental aviation, including viewership companies, TV news stations and police departments.

It was initially developed for the American army before adapting to other uses. Thousands have been manufactured over the years.

The National Transport Safety Council (NTSB) said it would be achieved.

The rescue craft was near a site near the waterfront in Manhattan, near the end of a long maintenance pavement for one of the ventilation towers of the Netherlands tunnel.

The sky is routinely filled with both planes and helicopters, and both private entertainment and commercial and tourism aircraft. Manhattan has many helicopters that create executives of business and others to destinations throughout the capital area.

Over the years, there were multiple incidents, including a collision between a plane and a tourist helicopter over the Hudson River in 2009, which killed nine people and crashed a rented helicopter for the year 2018 that provided “open” flights that fell to the East River, killing five people.

A medical transport plane killed seven people when it fell to the Philadelphia neighborhood in January. This happened two days after the collision of an American aircraft and an army helicopter in the air in Washington, killing 67-the most bloody American air disaster in one generation.

The recent incidents and nearby calls have left some people concern about aviation safety.