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 divers on Friday are working to recover pieces of the helicopter.
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.
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 family arrived in New York City to join Escobar, who was in the United States for a business trip, according to Jersey City Fulop.
The tourist tour was part of the wife’s 40th birthday, said Fulop. The family died a day before the birthday of the 8 -year -old boy, according to the mayor of New York City, Eric Adams.
“We are working with [the medical examiner] To accelerate family liberation to fly back to Spain, “Fulop said on social networks on Friday.
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.
The first to respond work to eliminate the remains of a water helicopter after colliding against the Hudson River, in the Newport neighborhood of Jersey City, 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.
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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Jersey City Medical Center, where passengers were transported after the accident, tried as stronger to save the injured, Fulop told ABC News.
Fulop said the city has had concerns about air traffic over the Hudson River 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.”
The teams work to eliminate a star helicopter from the Hudson River on April 10, 2025 in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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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 sounded like a sononic boom,” said another witness New York Wabc ABC Station. He said he saw the “helicopter divided into two with the rotor flying.”
Leah Sarnoff and Erin Murtha of ABC News contributed to this report.
