The head of Siemens Agustin Escobar branch of Spain, his wife and three children died from a helicopter off New Jersey. About this report CNN.
On Thursday, April 10, Bell 206L-4 Longranger I helicopter aircraft in the Hudson River near Manhattan. Five passengers and a helicopter died.
New York Mayor Eric Adams said that tourists from Spain were on board. They took a daily helicopter trip to the coast. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called the incident “tragedy unimaginable”.
Bell 206 was crashed in 2004. He had a certificate in accordance with the flight, granted in 2016 and took effect until 2029, according to the Federal Civil Aviation Administration.
The helicopter flew out of the location in the center of Manhattan at 14:59 (local time), from where it flew south, before turning north along the coast of Manhatten, to the Hudson River. At 15:08, the helicopter arrived at the bridge of George Washington, and then turned to the south along the coast of New Jersey, where the pilot immediately lost control.
CNN analysis shows the helicopter about 16 minutes before collapse into the water. According to many different weather trucks, at the time of helicopter, cloudy, wind speed is 10-15 miles per hour (up to six meters per second) and the wind jerks 25 miles per hour (11 meters per second).
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The Federal Civil Aviation Administration is investigating the case with the National Traffic Security Council. CNN recalls that one of the instructions of May 2023 requires a test and can replace the transmission shafts of the tail screw with eight different Bell 206L models, including 206L-4.