The helicopter crashed about 25 minutes into its air tour, Homendy said. Harrowing video shows the helicopter drop like a stone into the river, with at least one rotor still spinning in the air.

It wasn’t immediately clear if the helicopter tour company operated its own drones to snap photos midflight. Investigators also will be eying the aircraft’s “Jesus nut’’ — or the main ...

Six people, including a pilot and a family of five were killed on Thursday, April 10, when a New York Helicopter Tours flight crashed into the Hudson River. The tragedy occurred shortly after the ...

A tragic helicopter crash in the Hudson River claimed the lives of six people, including a tech executive from Spain, his wife, their three children, and the pilot. Witnesses reported seeing the ...

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New York Helicopter also owned a Bell 206 that lost power and made an emergency landing on the Hudson during a sightseeing tour in June 2013. The pilot managed to land safely and he and the ...

A New York senator has pushed for a ban on sightseeing helicopter tours around New York City, following the tragic crash that killed six people. Democrat Brad Hoylman-Sigal has called for a ban on ...

Beaming at the camera and sitting proudly in the cockpit of a helicopter on the eve of her ninth birthday, a little girl excitedly waited to take off and embark on a tour over the iconic New York ...

A tech boss and his family have been named among the victims of a deadly helicopter crash in New York. Augstin Escobar worked for the tech company Siemens for more than 27 years. He most recently ...

Officials said the sightseeing tour from New York Helicopters lifted off from the Downtown Manhattan Heliport around 3 p.m. About 19 minutes after circling Manhattan, the Bell 206 helicopter broke ...

New York Helicopter, the company that operated the tour, has been in business for 30 years and claims to offer "experience and safety" on short trips to view the city's aerial landscape ...

In 2011, a Sundance Helicopter Inc. tour headed for the Hoover Dam crashed in the mountainous terrain outside Las Vegas. All five on board were fatally injured. In 2018, Reno native Tristan Hill ...