Doomed NYC helicopter starred in company’s safety inspection video

The ill-fated New York City circuit chopper that crashed into the Hudson River connected Thursday features successful a now-eerie video touting the firm’s purported information record.

The chopper, a Bell 206L-4 LongRanger IV, came isolated midair Thursday day and plummeted into the h2o upside down adjacent the shoreline of Jersey City, New Jersey, sidesplitting a Spanish household of 5 and the aircraft’s Navy SEAL seasoned pilot. 

The helicopter’s main and process rotor detached from the assemblage of the craft and could beryllium seen splashing into the h2o separately, eyewitness video shows. The nonstop origin of the clang has yet to beryllium determined. 

The ill-fated chopper that crashed into the Hudson River connected Thursday, sidesplitting six people, is featured successful a video promoting the firm’s purported information record. (New York Helicopter)

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The helicopter, registration fig N216MH, was operated by New York Helicopters and the firm’s website inactive features a video of the doomed chopper being checked up of a takeoff.

The video is embedded into the company’s location page under a conception titled "Why Choose Us," and advertises the company’s experience, affordability and information record, among different reasons.

"We person an industry-leading information record," the website states alongside the video.

The soundless video shows a idiosyncratic walking toward the achromatic and achromatic colored chopper that has its main rotor leaf tied to a dolly.  

He past unties the enactment from the dolly and walks astir the craft pulling the main rotor via the rope. 

Next, the idiosyncratic climbs onto the broadside of the chopper and inspects the motor and thrust shaft of the craft earlier hopping into the cockpit wherever helium carries retired much checks earlier starting the motor and taking off. 

A idiosyncratic climbs onto the broadside of the chopper and inspects the motor and thrust shaft of the aircraft. (New York Helicopter)

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The Bell 206 was manufactured successful 2024 and had already logged 12,728 hours of formation clip erstwhile it was forced into repair backmost successful September for a mechanical contented with its transmission assembly, the New York Post reports, citing FAA data.

In April 2023, the FAA issued 2 information a for each Bell 206L exemplary helicopters.

The FAA said it had identified a hazard of process rotor thrust (TRDS) nonaccomplishment caused by a faulty bonded associated successful the segmented thrust shaft. The FAA recommended replacing immoderate failed process rotor thrust with a compliant, serviceable portion and prohibited the installation of non-compliant TRDS parts.

A New York chopper idiosyncratic is seen inspecting the motor and thrust shaft. (New York Helicopter)

In 1 chilling video of Thursday’s crash, it appears arsenic though the process rotor had detached earlier the main rotor. 

Michael Roth, the CEO of New York Helicopter Tours, told the New York Post he had not seen thing similar it successful his 30 years being successful the chopper business. 

"The lone happening I could conjecture — I got nary hint — is that it either had a vertebrate onslaught oregon the main rotor blades failed. I person nary clue. I don’t know," helium told the outlet. "This is horrific," Roth added. "But you gotta retrieve something, these are machines and they break."

The institution released a connection saying it is "profoundly saddened by the tragic mishap and nonaccomplishment of life."

The Spanish household of 5 who died successful the calamity included Siemens enforcement Agustin Escobar, his wife, Mercè Camprubí Montal, a planetary manager astatine an vigor exertion company, and 3 children. The aviator was besides killed. (New York Helicopter Tours, LLC)

"At New York Helicopter Tours, the information and well-being of our passengers and unit has ever been the cornerstone of our operations," the connection connected the firm's website reads. "Our contiguous absorption is supporting the families and their loved ones affected by this tragedy, arsenic good arsenic afloat cooperating with the FAA and NTSB investigations."

It’s not the archetypal clip a chopper operated by Roth’s institution has experienced mechanical problems. 

In 2015, different Bell 206 operated by the institution was forced to marque a hard landing portion hovering 20 feet disconnected the crushed aft taking disconnected successful bluish New Jersey. In that incident, the chopper experienced a process rotor driveshaft nonaccomplishment owed to the reuse of a faulty part, according to the NTSB.

The portion had been painted by a erstwhile owner, making it intolerable to archer whether it had been portion of the chopper during the earlier hard landing, the The New York Times reported. 

The chopper takes disconnected aft an inspection. (New York Helicopter)

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Two years earlier, a Bell 206 operated by the institution mislaid powerfulness and made an exigency landing connected the h2o portion carrying 4 Swedish tourists. The aviator deployed the aircraft’s pontoons and safely landed connected the river.

Thursday’s calamity has prompted Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., to telephone for the flights to beryllium reined successful oregon stopped altogether.

The clang followed a 2018 fatal incidental erstwhile a circuit chopper tragically slammed into the East River, sidesplitting 5 passengers. That formation was operated by Liberty Helicopters for FlyNYON.