FAA said New York Helicopter Tours will be shuttering ‘immediately’ after accident that killed all six on board
The company that operated the helicopter that crashed into New York City’s Hudson River on Thursday – killing all six people on board – has been shuttered with immediate effect, the US’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said late Sunday.
New York Helicopter Tours is “shutting down their operations immediately”, the FAA said in a statement on X. The agency added that it would launch a review of the company’s license and safety records in the meantime.
The tour operator was already the subject of an investigation from the National Transportation Safety Board, which said that the doomed helicopter – a Bell 206L-4 LongRanger IV – was not equipped with any flight data recording equipment.
It was on its eighth tour flight of the day when it crashed into the river near Hoboken, New Jersey, after taking off from Manhattan for an aerial tour of New York City.
Those killed in the crash were the pilot and his passengers: a family of five visiting from Spain.
The family members included Siemens executive Agustín Escobar, 49, and his wife, Mercè Camprubí Montal, who was celebrating her 40th birthday at the time of the helicopter crash.
