AvirbhawRakesh via X
All six people aboard a tourist helicopter, including three children, were killed when it crashed into the Hudson River near Lower Manhattan late Thursday afternoon.
The helicopter, a Bell 206 operated by New York Helicopter Tours, was found upside down in the river. The cause is still under investigation, but aviation experts say a catastrophic rotor failure may have caused it to break apart mid-air.
The victims were a tourist family from Spain who had been in the air for about 15 minutes before the helicopter went down. Witnesses reported seeing parts of the aircraft fall off before it plunged into the water.
