Five Tourists and Pilot Killed When Helicopter Crashes Into Hudson River

 

BY C STONE | STONE NEWS NETWORK

Source: NYTIMES

Six people were killed when a sightseeing helicopter carrying a family from Spain tumbled out of the sky on Thursday and plunged into the Hudson River just off Jersey City, N.J., across from Manhattan.

“Six innocent souls have lost their lives, and we pray for them and their families,” Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York said.

Agustín Escobar, the chief executive for rail infrastructure for the technology company Siemens, his three children and his wife were pulled from the helicopter or the frigid river but none survived, a senior law enforcement official said on condition of anonymity given the sensitivity of the crash. Another official confirmed that the Siemens executive and his family had been killed. The pilot was also killed.

The helicopter went down near a ventilation building above the Holland Tunnel, across the river from the West Village, at about 3:15 p.m.