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Six individuals killed after helicopter crashes into Hudson River in New York

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A helicopter crashed into the Hudson River in New York on Thursday, killing all six individuals onboard, together with the pilot and a household of Spanish vacationers with three kids.

The sightseeing helicopter broke aside in midair and crashed the other way up into the Hudson River between Manhattan and the New Jersey waterfront shortly after 3pm ET, resulting in an enormous response from emergency crews.

Movies posted on social media confirmed the plane largely submerged, the other way up within the water, and rescue automobiles crowding on to the streets on shore as emergency staff raced to avoid wasting these onboard.

On the scene of the crash, the emergency response boats could possibly be seen circling within the water. A crane is also seen on a floating platform within the river, presumably making an attempt to boost the sunken helicopter. In the meantime on shore, fireplace and police personnel stopped the general public and press from reaching the top of an extended concrete pier on the river from downtown Manhattan, as scuba groups emerged from the water.

A New York fireplace division boat responds to the crash on Thursday. {Photograph}: Michael M Santiago/Getty Pictures

The New York mayor, Eric Adams, confirmed six individuals had been pronounced useless, together with three kids and three adults.

Talking at a information convention on Thursday night, Adams stated his ideas had been with the crash victims and their households. An investigation into the reason for the accident was ongoing, he stated.

Three adults and three kids had been on board the Bell 206 helicopter that had left from downtown Skyport, Adams stated. The victims had been a pilot and a household believed to be visiting from Spain, he stated.

New York Metropolis mayor Eric Adams confirms six killed in helicopter crash – video

Jessica Tisch, the NYPD commissioner, stated a lot of the passengers had been already useless once they had been faraway from the water, however two passengers had been taken to a close-by hospital, the place they died quickly after.

Witness Bruce Wall advised the Related Press he noticed the helicopter “falling apart” in midair, with the tail and propeller coming off. The propeller was nonetheless spinning with out the plane because it fell, he stated.

Lesly Camacho, a hostess at a restaurant alongside the river in Hoboken, New Jersey, advised the AP she noticed the helicopter spinning uncontrollably earlier than it slammed into the water.

The rescue operations passed off close to a web site near the Manhattan waterfront, close to the top of an extended upkeep pier for one of many air flow towers for the Holland tunnel, a busy under-river highway tunnel connecting town with New Jersey.

Through the years, there have been a number of crashes within the skies over Manhattan, that are routinely full of each planes and helicopters, together with non-public leisure plane and business and vacationer flights.

Prior incidents embrace a collision in 2009 when a tour helicopter and a small non-public airplane collided over the Hudson River, killing 9 individuals. In 2018, a sightseeing helicopter providing “open door” flights went down into the East River, killing 5 individuals. New York Metropolis banned open-door helicopter flights following the crash.

The spot the place the helicopter crashed is lower than three miles (4.8km) south of the place US Airways Capt Chesley Sullenberger expertly landed the passenger airplane he was piloting, on the water, with no lives misplaced, after the engines had been put out in a fowl strike after takeoff from LaGuardia airport. The uncommon profitable emergency touchdown on water grew to become often known as the “miracle on the Hudson”.

First responders from New Jersey and New York on the scene the place a helicopter crashed within the Hudson River on Thursday. {Photograph}: Seth Wenig/AP

The crash web site is near the southern finish of the island of Manhattan, within reach of the Statue of Liberty and the One World Commerce skyscraper on the web site of the September 11 terrorist assault.

New Yorkers had been jogging and strolling alongside the sidewalk close to the Hudson as regular on Thursday night, overlooking the scene of the crash with emergency boats nonetheless seen throughout the water on the New Jersey aspect, blue lights flashing.

Software program engineers and pals Mike Jones, 37, and Omar Mohamed, 21, stated they had been out for a stroll throughout a break and so they had heard the information of the crash.

“It seems that helicopters crash a lot. And I’m afraid of heights anyway so helicopters are a no-go for me,” Jones stated.

Mohamed stated: “There was just another helicopter crash, right?” recalling the helicopter crash in Washington DC on the finish of January, when a navy flight collided midair with a passenger airplane coming in to land. All individuals aboard each flights had been killed.

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