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A helicopter crash left a Siemens executive, his family and their pilot dead. Here’s what we know
A sightseeing helicopter plunged from the sky into the Hudson River on Thursday, turning a family outing above Manhattan’s ...
USA Today22d
Helicopter tours of NYC have a controversial and deadly history
Pilot Richard Vance was the only survivor. The crash was the third in 11 years for Liberty Helicopters, leading Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer to call upon federal authorities to suspend ...
Reno Gazette-Journal22d
6 killed in NYC helicopter crash: Who were they, and have similar tours crashed in Nevada?
Pilot Richard Vance was the only survivor. The crash was the third in 11 years for Liberty Helicopters, leading Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer to call upon federal authorities to suspend ...
New York Post22d
New York City’s tragically long history of helicopter crashes as latest Hudson River wreck kills 6
The flight was operated by Liberty Helicopter Sightseeing Tours. News agency ANSA identified the Italian tourists as Tiziana Pedrone, Fabio Gallazzi, Giacomo Gallazzi, Michele Norelli and Filippo ...
The Washington Post22d
What we know about the Hudson River helicopter crash in N.Y. that killed 6
That helicopter, a Eurocopter AS350, was a private charter commissioned for a photo shoot and owned by New Jersey-based Liberty Helicopters. The parents of Trevor Cadigan, one of the victims of ...
Fox News20d
Doomed NYC helicopter starred in company’s safety inspection video
The crash followed a 2018 fatal incident when a tour helicopter tragically slammed into the East River, killing five passengers. That flight was operated by Liberty Helicopters for FlyNYON.
Aviation Week10d
FAA Targets ‘Hotspot’ Airports For Rotorcraft
Days after the Hudson River crash, the FAA issued an emergency order grounding New York Helicopters, the air tour operator. In March 2018, five passengers died when the pilot of a Liberty ...
Fox News21d
Fatal NYC helicopter crash prompts GOP lawmaker to call for ending popular tourist flights
Tour helicopters are very popular in New York City, especially among tourists looking for a unique aerial view of iconic landmarks like the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building and Central ...
A Siemens exec, his family and their pilot are dead after helicopter crashes into the Hudson River
A family’s afternoon sightseeing excursion above the misty shoreline of Manhattan ended in tragedy Thursday after the ...
Family killed in New York tourist helicopter crash
Three children are among six people who were killed on Thursday when the helicopter they were in plummeted into New York’s ...
New York Post22d
Six dead, including three kids, after helicopter crashes into NYC’s Hudson River: ‘Split in half’
The flight was operated by Liberty Helicopter Sightseeing Tours. In 2018, a Liberty Helicopters flight operated for FlyNyon, also a Eurocopter AS350, went down in the East River, killing five people.
CNN22d
A helicopter crash left a Siemens executive, his family and their pilot dead. Here’s what we know
The helicopter carried six people ... circling the Statue of Liberty, gliding north along the Hudson toward the George Washington Bridge and then turning south. About 16 minutes after takeoff ...