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Summary

A tourist helicopter carrying a Spanish family of five and a pilot crashed into the Hudson River near Lower Manhattan, killing all 6 aboard, including 3 children.

The Bell 206 helicopter plunged into the water inverted, missing its rotor blades, just over 15 minutes after departing the Wall St. Heliport.

Witnesses described loud noises and parts falling off before impact.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating, and Jersey City officials renewed calls for tighter air traffic safety.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

2 helicopter crashes today. I hope we hear the cause of this one

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The video on this one was so weird, like the transmission suddenly and violently locked up, snapping all the prop blades in half.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

This article includes a better video of the crash. The body of the craft hits and then you can see the main propeller fall into the water afterwords. One theory is that the main blade somehow separated in flight and actually cut off the tail rotor.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

A Telegram news channel: https://t.me/bnonews/3864

It's a distant shot and the moment of impact is obscured from view, but you can clearly see chunks of propeller blades spinning through the air while the remnants still attached to the helicopter don't appear to rotate at all.

Edit: Oh wait, it lands upside down so those are the skids. Duh.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

Holy shit, they came down fuckin hard 😮