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(NewsNation) — The National Transportation Safety Board volition springiness an update Friday connected the probe into a New York City chopper crash that killed six people.
The tourer chopper crashed into the Hudson River betwixt New York and New Jersey connected Thursday afternoon, sidesplitting the aviator and each passengers connected board, including Siemens enforcement Agustin Escobar, his woman and their 3 children.
No accusation has been fixed astir what caused the crash.
Helicopter crashes into Hudson River
Video footage posted to societal media showed parts of the chopper splashing into the water, and the overturned craft was submerged.
The chopper was operated by New York Helicopter, a section circuit company, according to NYC Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
Debris floats successful the h2o astatine the country wherever a chopper crashed successful the Hudson River successful Jersey City, New Jersey, connected April 10. Photographer: David Dee Delgado/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Police and firefighters enactment connected the tract aft a chopper crashed into the Hudson River adjacent little Manhattan connected April 10. (Photo by Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images)
A chopper is seen floating aft it crashed into the Hudson River adjacent little Manhattan connected April 10 successful New York. (Photo by Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images)
As seen from Pier 40 successful New York, constabulary and occurrence crews from New York and New Jersey respond to the country April 10 wherever a chopper went down successful the Hudson River betwixt Manhattan and the New Jersey waterfront. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
As seen from Pier 40 successful New York, constabulary and occurrence crews from New York and New Jersey respond to the country April 10 wherever a chopper went down successful the Hudson River betwixt Manhattan and the New Jersey waterfront. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
First responders locomotion on Pier 40 connected April 10 successful New York, crossed from wherever a chopper went down successful the Hudson River betwixt Manhattan and the New Jersey waterfront. (AP Photo/Jennifer Peltz)
First responders from New Jersey and New York respond to the country wherever a chopper crashed successful the Hudson River connected April 10 successful Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
As seen from Pier 40 successful New York, constabulary and occurrence crews from New York and New Jersey respond to the country wherever a chopper crashed into the Hudson River connected April 10 successful Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
Tisch said the chopper took disconnected from the downtown Manhattan heliport astatine 2:59 p.m., and astir 10 minutes into the flight, it reached the George Washington Bridge earlier it "lost control," hitting the h2o conscionable a fewer feet from Pier A Park successful Hoboken, New Jersey.
The occurrence section said it received respective exigency calls of a chopper successful the h2o astir 3:15 p.m. Rescuers were successful the h2o soon aft the telephone came in.
When asked astir witnesser reports and 911 calls claiming pieces of the chopper broke isolated successful midair earlier it deed the water, Tisch said that was accordant with what she heard.
Siemens enforcement and household connected board
Siemens Mobility, a exertion company, confirmed 49-year-old Escobar's decease to NewsNation.
“We are profoundly saddened by the tragic chopper clang successful which Agustin Escobar and his household mislaid their lives. Our heartfelt condolences spell retired to each their loved ones," a spokesperson said successful a statement.
Escobar was the planetary CEO of obstruction infrastructure, and his wife, Mercè Camprubi Montal, was the planetary commercialization manager for Siemens Energy.
Mayor Steven Fulop of Jersey City, New Jersey, said Escobar was successful the country for a concern travel and that his household flew retired to widen the travel for a fewer days. They were reportedly celebrating his wife’s 40th day with the flight, and each 3 children were 11 and under.
Fulop said Escobar's brother-in-law was flying to the United States and moving with authorities to expedite the merchandise of the bodies to Spain.
Reactions to the chopper crash
President Donald Trump offered condolences successful a social media post: "God bless the families and friends of the victims."
Trump said Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and his unit are investigating and that "announcements arsenic to precisely what took place, and how, volition beryllium made shortly!"
"I articulation each New Yorkers successful praying for those we've mislaid and their families," New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wrote connected societal media.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said helium had been briefed connected the "tragic chopper clang successful the Hudson River," which occurred adjacent his state, and has committed unit to enactment the exigency response.
The Associated Press and NewsNation's Andrew Dorn contributed to this report.
