No threads about the helicopter crash in the Hudson River?

[JGalt]

I guess not. These things are only news because..

A. It happened in New York City

B. It gives the Trump-haters an opportunity to blame the Trump administration

C. It gives everyone else the opportunity to blame the pilot for being a DEI hire.

Live updates: 6th person pulled from Hudson after tour chopper crash; at least 5 dead​

At least five people are dead following a helicopter crash in the Hudson River on Thursday afternoon, multiple law enforcement officials say​

• A helicopter broke apart in midair and crashed upside-down into the Hudson River between Manhattan and the New Jersey waterfront Thursday
• A report of the downed aircraft near the West Side Highway and Spring Street came in shortly after 3 p.m. Thursday.
• A sixth body was pulled from the water shortly before 5 p.m. today, a senior rescue official said.
• Earlier, five people were pulled from the water -- a pilot, man, woman and two children. Authorities had said at least four of them died at the scene and life-saving efforts were underway on the fifth at a hospital.
• Three law enforcement sources say the helicopter is believed to have been a tour charter flying along the Hudson at the time of the crash. A cause is under investigation.

Live updates: 6th person pulled from Hudson after tour chopper crash; at least 5 dead

Anyway, nobody gets out of here alive.

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[excalibur]

As usual, eyewitness accounts are all over the place.

We must await the official investigation to sort this out.

Six people were killed after a helicopter believed to be carrying a family of tourists from Spain crashed into the Hudson River on Thursday afternoon.

The crash was reported just before 3:30 p.m. closer to the Jersey City side of the Hudson.

In addition to the family of five -- two adults and three children -- a pilot was also on board, for a total of six people.

Video shared with Eyewitness News appeared to show pieces of the helicopter break apart and crash into the water.


Video shows the moments before a helicopter crashed into the Hudson River.
When crews arrived the helicopter was upside down in the water.

"I watched it fall out of the sky! I heard five or six loud noises that sounded almost like gunshots in the sky and saw pieces fall off, then watched it fall into the river," said Dani Horbiak, who saw the crash from her apartment window.

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Pilot, family of 5 from Spain killed after helicopter crashes into Hudson River

The family of tourists from Spain included two adults and three children.

abc7ny.com

The FAA believes the helicopter is a Bell 206 and appears to have taken off from the Downtown Manhattan Heliport at 2:59 p.m. It went off radar at 3:25 p.m.

 

[1srelluc]

Sad it was a family on tour instead of Schumer but it is NYC.

I think normal folks have had about enough of anything NYC.

 

[excalibur]

Video shows moment helicopter crashes into Hudson River

Video shows the moment a helicopter crashed into the Hudson River in New York. Multiple fatalities have been reported and at least four people were on the helicopter.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Failzero]

Video showed tail boom mostly gone as rest of Copter went straight down in a tight spiral into River

 

[excalibur]

Video showed tail boom mostly gone as rest of Copter went straight down in a tight spiral into River

Drone struck it? Metal fatigue?

 

[toobfreak]

As usual, eyewitness accounts are all over the place.

Maybe someone on the ground mistook it for a Tesla and a democrat shot it out of the sky?

Video shows the moments before a helicopter crashed into the Hudson River.

Flying over the river these days is very dangerous.

I watched it fall out of the sky! I heard five or six loud noises that sounded almost like gunshots in the sky​

Very unusual. I'm guessing that the rotor came off and hit the tail section on the way down.

The FAA believes the helicopter is a Bell 206 and appears to have taken off from the Downtown Manhattan Heliport at 2:59 p.m.

How could the FAA not know? Don't people keep records of who is flying what where?

 

[Silent Warrior]

Two previous NTSB reports had cited tail rotor drive shaft problems and requiring testing and if necessary, replacement. One of the reports included the 206-4 which was the model in this crash.