Brother of Woman Who Died in N.Y.C. Helicopter Crash Flies to U.S. to Identify Bodies, Vows to 'Never Forget' His Family Members

Officials are bringing the member of 1 of the victims of the Hudson River chopper clang to place her arsenic good arsenic her hubby and children.

According to the New York Post, Steven Fulop, the politician of Jersey City, N.J., said that Mercè Camprubí Montal's member Joan Camprubí Montal flew successful from Spain connected Friday, April 11, to assistance officials place his sister's body.

Joan would besides beryllium helping to place the bodies of his sister's husband, Agustín Escobar, main enforcement of Siemens' obstruction infrastructure part successful Spain, and their 3 young children. Mercè besides worked for Siemens.

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“There is inactive rather a spot of a process to spell done now,” Fulop told the Post connected Saturday, April 12. "The household subordinate whitethorn person to ID the bodies and they inactive person to put transport backmost to Spain. The Spanish consulate is involved, and Siemens has radical moving connected this."

The Hudson County Medical Examiner's bureau successful New Jersey is presently inactive examining the bodies of each six victims, the politician added.

"They inactive person to fig retired the origin of death, was it from drowning oregon was it from the propeller? Right present we’re each waiting to perceive what the NTSB has to say," Fulop said.

During a sojourn to the tract of the clang connected Saturday, Joan spoke to reporters and vowed to "never forget" his household members, per the Post.

“We volition ne'er hide you,” helium said successful Spanish aft reciting each 5 of their names. “We volition support your grin live each time of our lives, and I judge that’s the champion bequest we tin springiness you.”

“This is simply a truly hard situation, but we are overwhelmed by the monolithic condolences we’ve received,” Joan added, per the Post. “I privation to accidental they near together, they near without suffering, and they near with a grin connected their faces, and that is important to us.”

The fatal chopper clang occurred connected the New Jersey broadside of the Hudson River adjacent New York City astir 3:15 p.m. section clip connected Thursday, April 10, soon aft the chopper — which belonged to the sightseeing institution New York Helicopters — took disconnected from downtown N.Y.C. All six radical onboard the craft, including the pilot, died.

Officials antecedently confirmed that Escobar, Mercè and their 3 children — who were each nether 11 years old, Fulop antecedently shared — had traveled to the U.S. for Escobar to instrumentality a concern trip. The household of 5 past decided to widen their travel to observe Mercè's birthday.

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams besides antecedently said that 1 of the children was acceptable to crook 8 the time aft the crash.

"So this is astir apt portion of a mean tourer attraction of seeing the metropolis from the skyline. But it's conscionable a existent unfortunate concern and our bosom goes retired to the household members," Adams told Fox 5's Good Day New York.

The Federal Aviation Administration, which is investigating the clang alongside the National Transportation Safety Board, said the craft was a Bell 206 helicopter.

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Though authorities person not yet shared precisely what caused the crash, New York Helicopters CEO Michael Roth told The Telegraph that the aviator of the craft radioed basal to accidental helium was returning to the helipad to get much fuel shortly earlier the crash.

“He called successful that helium was landing and that helium needed fuel, and it should person taken him astir 3 minutes to arrive, but 20 minutes later, helium didn’t arrive,” Roth said.

"Every worker successful our institution is devastated. My woman has not stopped crying," helium added. "The decease of the kid of immoderate quality being, is simply a monumental disaster."

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