Helicopter company that ran deadly New York tour shuts down

First responders are seen adjacent the landing skids of a chopper aft it crashed into the Hudson River. Photo: Leonardo Munoz / AFP
Source: AFP

The chopper circuit institution down a clang successful New York that killed six radical past week is shutting down, US authorities said Sunday.

A elder concern executive, his woman and 3 children died on with the aviator erstwhile the chopper operated by New York Helicopter Tours malfunctioned and plunged into the Hudson River connected Thursday.

The household was connected a tourism formation implicit Manhattan, described by the relation arsenic the "ultimate sightseeing circuit of New York City."

New York Helicopter Tours is "shutting down their operations immediately," the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said successful a connection connected X.

"The FAA volition beryllium launching an contiguous reappraisal of the circuit operator's licence and information record," the civilian aviation authorization said.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the origin of the crash.

Jersey City officials said moving theories included a drone collision, a vertebrate onslaught oregon mechanical failure.

Video of the incidental has emerged showing the fuselage seemingly becoming detached from the rotor.

The clang has shone a different airy connected US aviation information aft a drawstring of deadly crashes, including the collision betwixt a subject chopper and a rider pitchy successful Washington successful January that claimed 67 lives.

A airy craft besides crashed aft departing Boca Raton airdrome successful Florida connected Friday, with section media reporting 3 radical had been killed aft the level developed a mechanical issue.

Source: AFP