An investigation is being carried out in the helicopter accident that killed six people, the pilot and a family of Spanish tourists, when the trade immersed himself in the Hudson River in New York City on Thursday.
The recovery teams began to raise remains of the river during the night.
The Siemens executive, Agustin Escobar, his wife, Merce Camprubi Montal, and his children, 4, 8 and 10, have been identified as victims in the accident.
They were killed a day before the birthday of the 8 -year -old boy, according to the mayor of New York City, Eric Adams.
Also murdered he was the 36 -year -old pilot, sources of application of the law to ABC News said. The pilot has not yet been publicly identified.
Emergency staff works on the scene of a helicopter accident on the Hudson River near Lower Manhattan in New York, as seen in Newport, New Jersey, on April 10, 2025.
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The Chopper, which was operated by the New York Helicopter Tours Company, fell to the Hudson River between Bajo Manhattan and Hoboken, New Jersey, on Thursday afternoon, just over 15 minutes after he left Wall Street Heliport.
“We are devastated,” said a company representative to ABC News. “My staff has not stopped crying.”
The helicopter, identified by the Federal Aviation Administration as Bell 206 helicopter, was on his sixth flight of the day. It was found upside down in the 50 degree water when rescuers arrived at the scene, which was closer to the New Jersey side of the Hudson River, according to the sources.
On this video screen, a helicopter crashed into the Hudson River on April 10, 2025 in New York.
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The shock video showed that the helicopter immersed himself in the water without a tail rotor or a blade of the main rotor. The authorities said he hit the inverted water.
New York police commissioner Jessica Tisch told journalists that four victims were declared dead at the scene. Two others later succumbed to their wounds, he said.
This October 2022 archive photo shows the helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River on April 10, 2025 in New York.
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Jersey City Medical Center, where passengers were transported after the accident, tried as strong as possible to save the injured, said Jersey City mayor Steven Fulop, ABC News.
Fulop said the city has had concerns about air traffic about Hudson before and expects this to provide more attention to its security concerns.
President Donald Trump described the “terrible” accident on social networks and said that the images of the accident are “horrendous.”
Emergency staff works on the scene of a helicopter accident on the Hudson River near Lower Manhattan in New York, as seen in Newport, New Jersey, on April 10, 2025.
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The Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, told X that the news was an “unimaginable tragedy.”
Dani Horbiak told ABC News that he saw the helicopter “fall from the sky” from the window of his apartment.
“I heard five or six strong noises that sounded almost like shots in the sky and I saw that the pieces fell, then I saw him fall into the river,” he said.
“It was happening and the helicopter fell at an angle of 45 degrees,” Eric Campoverde told ABC News. “Great splash, I was very afraid.”
“It sounded like a sonic boom,” a witness told the ABC station in New York Wabc. He said he saw the “helicopter divided into two with the rotor flying.”
Another witness told Wabc: “A propeller broke into pieces.”
Leah Sarnoff and Erin Murtha of ABC News contributed to this report.
