The owner of the New York Helicopter Tour Company said the condemned helicopter was and returned to the base to crash against the Hudson River, killing the six on board, including a family of five.
The New York Helicopter Tour CEO, Michael Roth, says the plane pilot had been radiograph about the need for more fuel minutes before the tourist helicopter sank into the cloudy water on Thursday.
“Hey [the pilot] He called that he was landing and that he needed fuel, and he should have tasks of arriving about three minutes, but 20 minutes later, hey, he did not arrive, “Roth told The Telegraph.
The five passengers have been identified as a family in Spain that visits the great vacation apple.
Agustin Escobar, his wife, Merce Camprubi Montal, and his three children were killed along with an unidentified pilot.
Escobar is the global CEO of railway infrastructure in Siemens Mobility, while his wife worked as a Global Marketing Manager for the Siemens Energy Energy Technology Company.
Four victims were declared dead on the scene and two more were declared dead in the hospital, authorities said.
The heartbreaking photos on the New York Helicopter Tours website show Escobar, Montal and their children smiling in front of the Longranger IV Bell 206L-4 helicopter and tied inside the plane.
Roth said he learned about the tragedy of one of his workers in the company’s Helipport center, which he had heard about an accident, without knowing what his helicopter was.
“Then one of my pilots flew over the Hudson and saw the helicopter backwards,” he told The Outlet.
Roth revealed to the post previously that he was “absolutely devastated” by the mortal incident that killed the six people, including three children, on board.
“It’s devastation,” he said. “I am a father and grandfather and have children there, I am devastated. I am absolutely devastated.”
Roth did not provide any cause of the accident, he only gave his perspective of what he saw in the images of Diddy’s catastrophe.
“The only thing I know when you see a video of the helicopter falling, that the main rotor blades are suffering in the helicopter,” Roth said. “And I host something like that in my 30 years in the business, in the helicopter business. The only thing I could suppose, I have no idea, is that they had a bird’s blow or the chores of the main rotor.
The Chopper Bell 206 separated in half when it flew over the river route that separated New York and New Jersey around 3:15 pm, FDNY officials said.
The video captured the fuselage that emerges from the murky waters, causing a great splash near Pier 40 in West Louston Street and West Street.
The helicopter propellers separated out of control to the river moments later.
Witnesses described listening to a “boom sound” at the time of impact.
The authorities have begun to clean the rubble field outside the river while investigating the cause of the accident.
The shattered body of the tourist helicopter was taken from the cold waters of the Hudson on Thursday night.
Diving operations will resume Friday to recover additional parts of the remains.
