Search resumes for six killed aboard plane, the unnamed pilot and a Spanish family with children age 11, five and four
The pilot of a sightseeing helicopter that crashed into New York’s Hudson River on Thursday killing all six people aboard reportedly sent a radio message moments earlier saying he was low on fuel and was heading back to the helipad, its operators said on Friday.
Michael Roth, the chief executive of New York Helicopter Tours, described how the pilot never made it back to the downtown Manhattan heliport it took off from about 16 minutes previously on its sixth flight of the day, the Telegraph reported.
“He called in that he was landing and that he needed fuel, and it should have taken him about three minutes to arrive, but 20 minutes later, he didn’t arrive,” Roth told the UK outlet.
One thing keeps surprising me: the number of aircraft crashing into the Hudson river instead of crashing into a crowded New Year City block just nearby. I don’t know if it’s sheer luck but it sure looks like it.
It’s more likely that most flight paths go over the Hudson vs NYC to avoid massive crashes in the city itself.
Especially for the helicopter tours, which aren’t allowed over land in NYC.
Well yeah, but airliners and military choppers have come down into the Hudson also.
What airlines other than the Miracle on the Hudson, which was done on purpose?
Edited to add, why the hell did I get downvoted for asking for some examples? Sorry for trying to learn.
kagis
I don’t see specifically an airliner (i.e. large-body commercial passenger aircraft), but there have been other aircraft:
Deadly NYC helicopter crash adds to tragic list of crashes in Hudson River
Later the same year as the “Miracle on the Hudson”, nine people died when a tourist helicopter and a small private plane collided mid-air and plunged into the Hudson River on August 8, 2009.
Another plane went down in the Hudson River in May 2016.
A World War Two-era plane — a P-47 Thunderbolt — crashed during a celebration for the American Airpower Museum’s 75th anniversary. The pilot, William Gordon, died.
Then in 2019, a charter helicopter crashed in the Hudson River near a heliport after refuelling.
