Six Spanish citizens died on Thursday, April 10 When a helicopter crashed in the waters of the Hudson River, In New York, as confirmed by the mayor of the city, Eric Adams.
The victims were three adults and three minors, allegedly members of the same family.
Spanish diplomatic sources in New York also confirmed the fact.
The accident, whose causes have not yet been determined, occurred shortly after 15.00 local hours.
“The six victims were removed from water. Unfortunately, the six were declared dead,” Adams told the press.
Adams confirmed that there were no survivors in the accident and that it was “a family and a pilot from Spain”, specifying that there were two adults and three children among the passengers, in addition to the driver.
According to the aircraft tracking on Flight Radar, at the time of the accident the helicopter (a Bell 206) had 15 minutes of flight and 6 kilometers traveled.
The device left Downtown Manhattan; He went south before flying north to the George Washington bridge, and then went back to the south following the New Jersey coast, when he lost control at Hoboken.
The ship crashed at 15:15 local time (19:15 local time) of one day with very low temperatures (around 5 degrees Celsius), and according to the images leaked by several televisions, you can see a helicopter with the split tail falling out loudly to the river.
The loud fall of the water helicopter mobilized divers in the Fire Department, as well as the New York Police and neighboring New Jersey, who took the bodies out of the water, although it is not clear if at first some were alive.
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The police officer, Jessica Tisch, placed the accident at 3:17 p.m. local time (approximately 19:15), after which emergency services came quickly; The divers recovered four bodies and two other passengers died in the hospital.
Some media indicated that the ship belonged to a tourist company called New York Helicopter Tours, which offers panoramic tours through the city from the air.
The Hudson River is constantly traveled by vessels and was the scene, in 2009, of a dramatic incident: a US Airways plane had to machine emergency with 155 passengers on board, all rescued alive. The episode was known as the miracle in the Hudson.
The Hudson reaches depths of up to 60 meters in some sectors and records an average temperature of 8 degrees Celsius during this time of the year.