A dense fog could be behind the accident of the helicopter that has crashed on the Hudson River, in front of, after a few minutes of an erratic flight, according to the video surveillance cameras of buildings near the site of the incident, on the banks attached to New Jersey. Part of the device’s fuselage stands out from the surface of the water, while New York Police vessels and firefighters surround the remains in frantic search and rescue work. As reported by the Local Station of the ABC television network, five Spanish tourists have died in the incident. The aircraft, which fell to the river shortly before three thirty in the afternoon (local time, six more hours in peninsular Spain) transported two adults and three children, whose bodies have been recovered from water. The pilot body, sixth person on board, has not been located.
Images of fans show how, after a flight of just 30 minutes since it took off from a bass heliport of Manhattan, the device is partially disintegrated in the air, with the main rotor and the tail arm, in addition to the blades of the rotor, detaching themselves completely from the fuselage, although they continued to turn while falling into the water, which this Thursday recorded a temperature of five degrees. A witness declared to the local Eyewitness News station that he saw the helicopter crash. “I heard a strong click … I looked over … and I could see a helicopter falling on that side [de Nueva Jersey] And splashing in the water, “said the witness.” I didn’t see anyone go out, “he added.
Police ships and other rescue boats surrounded what seems to be a pouring helicopter floating in the river, next to one of the ventilation towers of the Holland tunnel, one of the underground that links New Jersey and Manhattan. Witnesses on social networks claimed to have seen a helicopter in trouble before the water rushed. The tourist helicopters usually fly over the river, transporting tourists from the Lower Manhattan and New Jersey Helipuertos, as well as businessmen who wish to avoid complications of Manhattan’s traffic. The police did not immediately identify the aircraft or specified how many people were on board.
According to the live story of the Chief of Research of the ABC television network, located right in front, on the New York shore of the river, police and firefighters are helping the search and rescue of possible survivors with the background noise of the sirens of emergency vehicles, which have precipitated by the highway adjacent to the river to help in the emergency. A few meters towards the interior, the fall of the nave would have impacted on residential buildings, many of them luxury, who pull the riverbank of Jersey City. The New York Police have issued a warning signal to motorists preventing them from traffic cuts in the immediate vicinity, while the safety forces of the security forces have intensified in the area.
The helicopter tour of the Hudson River to contemplate the skyline De Manhattan is one of the most famous tourist offers in the city. Several helipuertos at the southern end of the Manhattan Peninsula communicate with others on the riverbank in New Jersey for short displacements or tourist routes. At least 32 people have died in helicopter accidents in New York since 1977, when a helicopter used for executive trips crashed into the roof of a Manhattan skyscraper in a restricted airspace and the pilot died.
