The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said that “everything is on table” during a news conference at Jersey City Hall on Friday and it was “Rul (Ing) nothing” in its investigation into a deadly accident of a tour helicopter on Thursday in the Hudson River. The NTSB will see a witness of a large flock of birds in the area before the accident.
According to the New York Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner Jessica Tish, the tour company flying to New York Helicopters went down in Hadson River near Jersey City, New Jersey, Coastline for 206 helicopters, tour company New York Helic Helicopters.
The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) and NYPD divers entered the water within minutes, pulling the pilot and family members coming from Spain, including Siemens’ executive Agustin Escobar; His wife, Marse Campruub Montal; And their three young children, with water. All six riders were declared dead.
According to a statement by Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop, Escobar was on a commercial journey, and his family flew to expand the holiday at Montal’s 40th birthday celebration. The children were all under 11 years of age.
A file photo of victims of a helicopter crash in New York City on Thursday, April 10, 2025. The five -killed family killed in the tragedy included Siemen’s executive Agustin Escobar; A global manager at an energy technology company, wife Marse Campruub Montal; And three children. The pilot was also killed. (New York Helicopter Tours, LLC)
6 deceased including 3 children after helicopter plumates in Hudson River,
Although the identity of the pilot has not yet been released by the authorities, NTSB President Jennifer Homendi said during the news conference that the agency had pilot logbooks and confirmed that he had conducted a commercial pilot certificate with rotcraft and instrument ratings.
“Pilot reported 450 hours of total flight experience on its most recent therapy, which was released on September 20, 2024,” said Homendi. “By March 29, 2025, the pilot had deposited about 788 hours a total time.”
NTSB President Jennifer Homendi speaks during a news conference at Jersey City Hall on Friday after a deadly helicopter crash on the Hudson River between Manhattan and New Jersey Waterfront on Thursday. (AP Photo/Yuki Ivamura)
NTSB is still calculating the time of pilot flight in the Bell helicopter as Pilot first flew from Robinson 44, according to Hamendi.
NYPD divers are still searching for pieces of aircraft, including the main rotor, tail rotor, main transmission, roof structure and tail structure.
However, Hamendi said that the witness report had already provided assistance to the investigators in the preliminary investigation of the agency.
The map shows the approximate location where a helicopter crashed into the Hudson River on Thursday afternoon. All six people aboard the helicopter were killed in the tragedy. (Fox News)
In the Hudson River helicopter accident, the pilot said about the need for fuel before a deadly accident, CEO says
Homendi said that shortly before the NTSB accident, it was aware of “reports” of the “big flock of birds” in the area.
“We discussed this this morning,” he said. “This is something we will be seeing.”
NTSB is telling the public to present photos, videos and testimony “if something hit (they) separated them as” or gave them a “break”.
As far as a time -line is there, NTSB said that it is still giving details of whether it can be wrong.
The FAA confirmed that the helicopter flew from the city Manhattan Haleport at 2:59 pm and flew south before flying north with Manhattan coastline.
A crane vessel raises the debris of a helicopter that crashes in Hudson River on Thursday in Jersey City, NJ (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
At 3:08, the helicopter reached the George Washington Bridge and then, according to the FAA, turned to flying south with New Jersey coastline.
Shortly thereafter, the pilot lost control of the aircraft and hit water just a few feet from the edge near Hobocaine.
A map showing the route of a sick helicopter carrying five tourists and a pilot, which was killed on Thursday when the Chopper crashed into the Hudson River. (Fox News)
Michael Roth, CEO of New York Helicopter Tour, whose company operated the helicopter, Told telegraph The pilot told about the need for fuel but never arrived.
It is not clear when the call about fuel came out.
Police and firefighters work on the site where a helicopter crashed into the Hudson River near Lower Manhattan on Thursday. All six passengers were killed in an accident, NYC Mayor Eric Adams said. (Through Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu Getty Image)
Transport Secretary Sean Dafi said in a statement on Thursday that the tour helicopter was in the special flight rules area established in New York, which means no air traffic control services were being provided when the helicopter crashed.
However, Duffy confirmed “several minutes before entering the field of special flight rules, providing air traffic control support from Luardia Airport, according to the statement.
Asked about the safety of air tourist, Hamendi said that NTSB “released a full report on Part 91 operations regarding revenue passengers”.
A timeline showing the incidents of a sick helicopter carrying five tourists and a pilot, who was killed in the Hudson River on Thursday, April 10, 2025 when crashed. (Fox News)
“We strongly believe in a level of security, and it may not look like regulation for a major commercial airline, but we believe that they should be regulated,” he said. “We have issued recommendations in the past on crash-resistant recorders. We have issued several regular recommendations on security management systems on special rules for Part 91.”
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“The residents of the island of Stonon are deeply concerned about low-up-up tour helicopters, whose ways often pass in their neighborhoods in all hours of the day,” Mallioticis has written in a statement. “To prevent another tragedy, these tourist helicopter flights on the NYC must be more heavy regulated and restricted, if not fully ends.”
One of the young victims of helicopter crash in New York City on Thursday, April 10, 2025. (New York Helicopter Tours, LLC)
Homendi said that it is “very early” that NTSB will suggest as a result of the investigation, to guess that “this is a matter of concern that we have raised for many years”.
“Certainly, we raised it after the flinian accident in a specific report. … It was very widespread about our recommendations, especially about air tour operators,” he said.
Report has been stated
On March 11, 2018, a helicopter operated by Flynine, a separate helicopter-righting company in New York, crashed into the Eastern River, killing all five passengers.
Fox News previously reported that passengers were reportedly “inability to free themselves from the harness they were wearing,”, resulting in a $ 90 million case settlement.
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Richard Vance, pilot, was using a standard seat belt and was the only survivor.
The FAA and NTSB will continue to investigate the Hudson River helicopter accident.
Mayor Phulop confirmed in an X post that a brother -in -law of the family dying in the rubble was flying in the country on Friday morning.
Fulop wrote in the post, “We are working with (medical examiner) to release (family back to Spain),” Fulop wrote in the post.
Julia Bonavita of Fox News Digital and Associated Press contributed to this report.
