Seventeen people are still published on Friday around the place between New York and New Jersey, where on Thursday The helicopter was shattered What He ended the life of a five -year -old family More pilot who transferred them, according to the National Transport Security Council (NTSB) on Friday.
On Friday at a press conference, its director, Jennifer Humandi, refused to pronounce the possible cause of the accident: “We have a lot of information, But we will not speculate. We need to confirm this. It takes a time (…) We will try to answer all questions in the next few days. “
The deceased family was made up of Siemens Agustín Escobar And his wife MERCè CAMPRUBíIn addition to his children from 4, 5 and 11 years.
The loud water helicopter fall, in which we can see how parts of the fuselage were lost in the air, around 15:15 local time (21:15 Spanish Peninsula) and need to fill Fire Department submarinesIn addition to the New York Police and the neighboring New Jersey, which took the victims from the river and the evil plane.
There are still many doubts about what exactly happened to the plane, which was called a tourist company called New York helicopters tours in New York It offers panoramic visits in New York from the sky.
He left the device, a bird and a bird from the lower Manhattan direction before flying north to the George Washington Bridge, then returned to the south after the New Jersey coast, when It lost control of the city of Hobokin.
“Everything on the table”
“Everything on the table, we do not exclude anything,” Humandi added that there are two weeks of journalists in a comparison of Jersey City, where he added that the New York Police and the Emergency Office in Jersey City are working to investigate, and that the company that works on the trip is also its investigations.
In addition, he pointed out that the emergency divers team continues to work A group of helicopter pieces This fell on the river, “including the main rotor, the main transmission, the ceiling structure and the tail structure.”
“We collect Test testsThe evidence we need to search for maintenance and registration books and other materials.
Pilot assembly 788 flying hours
The NTSB director also said that the pilot’s records, who had a commercial certificate and reported 450 hours on a medical visit in September last year. At the end of March, About 788 hours have accumulated a tripSegún ntsb.
Humandi insisted that his agency will appreciate all the information of the citizen that the witnesses of the accident can contribute to, “Although it looks unrealistic,” They presented an email where people who want to send it.
After the NTSB manager appeared, Greg Keris, director of the Emergency Management Office in Jersey City, appeared shortly, which indicated that the helicopter sank at the depth of five feet and that the rescue work was on the Hudson River “They are always complicated because of their bad clarity.”
Yesterday’s accident is, for the number of victims, The worst accident of this kind since 2018When five passengers died of the six helicopters who took from New Jersey and fell into the ice water in the eastern river, Hudson’s arm, which bathed Manhattan for the east.
at least 32 people died In New York’s helicopters since 1977; It was the latest in 2019, when a plane used on executive flights collided with a skyscraper in Manhattan in the restricted airspace and the pilot died.
