On Thursday, April 10, around 3:11 p.m., the Spanish Agustín EscobarPresident of the Technological Company subsidiary Siemens In Spain, his wife Mercé Camprubí And their three children became Five of the six fatal victims of the helicopter accident occurred on the Hudson River in New York.
The security and research forces confirmed the American newspaper The New York Times That Mercé Camprubí also served as a global manager of an energy technology company. However, the Spanish family was in “The Big Apple” To celebrate your youngest son.
According to the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, In the plane crash the pilot of the helicopter, whose name has not been revealed, who worked for a tourist company called New York Helicopter Tours, responsible for offering tourists panoramic visits of “The city that never sleeps”
According to the aircraft tracking in Flightradar24a service that shows in real time the position of airplanes worldwide, at the time of the accident the helicopter, model Bell 206Lhe carried approximately 15 minutes of flight And some 6 kilometers Tours from New York City before falling to the Hudson River.
The helicopter accident on the Hudson River
According to what was stated by the US authorities, the helicopter took off the helipad in the neighborhood of Manhattan And he headed south, before flying north, specifically to the bridge George Washingtonwhere they flew again following the coast of New Jersey And there they lost control.
The aircraft crashed into the city of HobokenNew Jersey, at the time of the day the temperature was lower than normal – around 5 degrees Celsius-. In addition, according to the images leaked in social networks, it is observed that the helicopter had the game departed before it fell loudly towards the Hudson River.
After the helicopter fell into the water, the Police from New York and New Jersey, as well as the bodies of firefighters In both cities, they mobilized the Divers to recover the bodies. However, until now, the authorities have not officially clarified if at first any of the passengers was still alive.
The only person who has referred to this point was the Chief of the Police in Hudson County, Jessica Tischwho told the media that the divers had managed to recover four bodies, and that the other passengers were treated quickly by emergency services, but died on their way to hospital.
Given this situation, the governor of New York, Kathy Hochulhe confirmed to the media the death of the six people to ensure: “These six innocent souls have lost their lives in a terrible plane crash that has shattered my heart. This situation is worse than we could have imagined,” he said.
Also, the executive director of the tourist company New York Helicopter Tours, Michael Roth, said the company was devastated For the unfortunate event: “I had not seen anything like this in the 30 years that I have been in the helicopter business.”