As the helicopter lost power and began to descend over the water, the pilot inflated pontoons that kept the aircraft upright in the water. The passengers went to a hospital, but nobody was ...

The helicopter’s main and tail rotor detached ... The pilot deployed the aircraft’s pontoons and safely landed on the river. Thursday’s tragedy has prompted Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R ...

A Liberty Helicopters flight operated for FlyNyon ... You saw the three large pontoons – the pilot knew they were going to be landing in the water. It’s a big handgrip he has to pull to ...

A helicopter with six people aboard crashed in ... was pulled from the water and taken to an area hospital. Emergency boats appeared to be responding to the upside-down chopper, Citizen app ...

The pilot was able to inflate pontoons so the helicopter remained upright on the water and there were no serious injuries, though the passengers were all taken to hospital. In 2015 another red ...

A Bell 206 chopper belonging to New York Helicopter Charter in June 2013 ... reported – after the aviator deployed the aircraft’s pontoons and safely landed on the river.

Rescue boats circled the submerged aircraft within minutes of impact, and recovery crews hoisted the mangled helicopter out of the water just after 8 p.m. using a floating crane. The bodies were ...