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https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/10/nyregion/hudson-river-helicopter-
crash

The helicopter was operated by New York Helicopter, a local excursion
company, said Michael Roth, the company’s chief executive. Roth said he
did not know what had happened to the aircraft, which his company leased
from its Louisiana-based owner.

“I have no information whatsoever,” Roth said when reached by phone in New Jersey. “I’m not there.”

Chelsia Rose Marcius
April 10, 2025, 6:03 p.m. ET3 hours ago
Chelsia Rose Marcius

The office of emergency management in Jersey City, on the west side of the Hudson River across from Manhattan, has started to investigate the crash, according to a spokeswoman for Steven M. Fulop, the city’s mayor.

The agency has secured the helicopter and will work alongside officials
from the National Transportation Safety Board, which will take the lead on
the investigation, the spokeswoman said.

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Maia Coleman
April 10, 2025, 5:57 p.m. ET3 hours ago
Maia Coleman

Police Commissioner Tisch said the cause of the crash is under
investigation. The helicopter had taken off earlier this afternoon and
followed a path south before heading north up the Hudson and then
returning south along the New Jersey shoreline, where it crashed.

Maia Coleman
April 10, 2025, 6:00 p.m. ET3 hours ago
Maia Coleman
Commissioner Tisch said most of the passengers were already dead when they
were removed from the water, but two passengers were taken to a nearby hospital, where they died soon after.

Maia Coleman
April 10, 2025, 5:51 p.m. ET3 hours ago
Maia Coleman

“Our hearts go out to the families of those who were onboard,” Mayor Eric
Adams said. There were three adults and three children on board, visiting
from Spain he said. “All six have been removed from the water, and sadly
all six victims have been pronounced deceased,” he said.

Patrick McGeehan
April 10, 2025, 5:47 p.m. ET3 hours ago
Patrick McGeehan

Peter Park, who works from home about a block from the Hudson in Jersey
City, N.J., said he heard “a loud bang” at about 3:15 p.m. and looked out
his window to see an aircraft emitting black smoke.

Then he saw the unattached blades of a helicopter falling into the river
so close to the New Jersey side that he feared they might strike people on
the shore.

Park said he had texted his wife to say, “I think I just saw a helicopter
fall into the river.” Then he dialed 911, he said.

Maia Coleman
April 10, 2025, 5:45 p.m. ET3 hours ago
Maia Coleman

Mayor Eric Adams has just arrived with Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch.

Image

Credit...Adam Gray for The New York Times
Liam Stack
April 10, 2025, 5:42 p.m. ET3 hours ago
Liam Stack

The Downtown Sky Port on the East River closed early on Thursday,
according to a woman who worked at the site but declined to be named. The
sky port was empty and quiet aside from security guards who shooed
reporters away. The woman said the facility — which sits on a pier jutting
into the river, and is home to roughly a dozen helipads — was closed
“because of the crash and because of many other things.”

Maia Coleman
April 10, 2025, 5:35 p.m. ET4 hours ago
Maia Coleman

The group of officers and emergency workers on the scene has dispersed,
and reporters have been ushered into a building at the end of the pier,
where officials are expected to brief the media soon.

Maia Coleman
April 10, 2025, 5:36 p.m. ET4 hours ago
Maia Coleman
It’s a dramatic view here at the end of the pier. The choppy water is
still dotted with emergency-responder boats, and the river is framed by
Jersey City’s skyscrapers, stretching high into the sky.

Patrick McGeehan
April 10, 2025, 5:35 p.m. ET4 hours ago
Patrick McGeehan

This was the deadliest helicopter crash in New York City since at least
2018, when a sightseeing helicopter that was flying with its doors off
fell into the East River and flipped over. All five passengers drowned and
only the pilot survived.

Tim Balk
April 10, 2025, 5:32 p.m. ET4 hours ago
Tim Balk

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York said in a statement that “six innocent souls
have lost their lives and we pray for them and their families.” She added
that the crash is “heartbreaking, and worse than we could have imagined.”

Christopher Maag
April 10, 2025, 5:14 p.m. ET4 hours ago
Christopher Maag

Mandy Bowlin and her 15-year-old daughter were on a Circle Line tour boat
when they heard a boom behind them. They looked west and saw a helicopter falling from the sky. The aircraft’s rotor flew off, and then the cabin nose-dived into the water, she said. Bowlin saw other debris flying toward
the boat, and worried for her daughter’s safety.

“We’re kind of shook up,” said Bowlin, 49, who is visiting from
Chattanooga, Tenn. “It was scary.”

Christopher Maag
April 10, 2025, 5:40 p.m. ET3 hours ago
Christopher Maag
Bowlin the crash happened only moments after a Circle Line tour announcer
said they were passing the site of the “Miracle on the Hudson,” where
pilot Chelsey “Sully” Sullenberger successfully landed US Airways Flight
1549 on the Hudson River in 2009. As they did in 2009, the tour boat and several NY Waterway ferries changed direction and sailed for the crash
site in case they could help.

Maia Coleman
April 10, 2025, 5:08 p.m. ET4 hours ago
Maia Coleman

A group of divers just emerged from the water and joined the emergency responders on the pier. A boat dropped off a load of diving equipment and headed back out to the water.

Video

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Corey Kilgannon
April 10, 2025, 5:03 p.m. ET4 hours ago
Corey Kilgannon

From the walkway along the Hudson, Michelle Jordan and her daughter
Annabel, visiting New York City from London, stared across the river to
where emergency responders in boats were gathered on the New Jersey side,
near the downed helicopter. “We saw all the emergency vehicles, so we came over,” Jordan said.

Maia Coleman
April 10, 2025, 4:48 p.m. ET4 hours ago
Maia Coleman

Reporters are waiting behind the yellow police tape at the end of the
pier, but there has been little visible action in the water in the past
few minutes. A police boat that has been stationed in the water near the
wreck is returning to shore now. Several boats are still at the site of
the crash, and it’s begun to rain.

Andy Newman
April 10, 2025, 4:47 p.m. ET4 hours ago
Andy Newman

At least three people who were in the helicopter when it crashed have
died, according to two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the
matter.

Image

Credit...Dave Sanders for The New York Times
Andy Newman
April 10, 2025, 4:42 p.m. ET4 hours ago
Andy Newman

Rescue workers have pulled five people, including three children, from the water. A sixth victim, believed to be the pilot, is still missing,
according to a senior law enforcement official.

Image

Credit...Adam Gray for The New York Times
Patrick McGeehan
April 10, 2025, 4:36 p.m. ET5 hours ago
Patrick McGeehan

The last fatal helicopter crash in New York City was six years ago, but at least 32 people have died in helicopter crashes in the city since 1977, according to The Associated Press. In 2018, five sightseers drowned when a helicopter flying with its doors off fell into the East River and flipped
over. Only the pilot survived. In 2009, a sightseeing helicopter carrying Italian tourists collided with a private plane over the Hudson, killing
nine.

Maia Coleman
April 10, 2025, 4:35 p.m. ET5 hours ago
Maia Coleman

Dozens of police officers, firefighters and emergency medical workers
gathered at the end of Pier 40 in Manhattan, just yards from where the helicopter plummeted into the Hudson. Past the pier, boats with emergency personnel circled the spot where the helicopter fell, obscuring the
wreckage. Helicopters circled overhead.


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