NEW YORK (AP) — Six folks have died in a helicopter crash within the Hudson River in New York Metropolis, an Related Press supply says.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows beneath.
NEW YORK (AP) — A helicopter crashed Thursday into the Hudson River simply off Manhattan, authorities mentioned. There have been no speedy stories on accidents or fatalities.
The hearth division mentioned it acquired a report of a helicopter within the water at 3:17 p.m.
Movies posted on social media confirmed the plane principally submerged, the other way up within the water. The hearth division mentioned it had models on scene performing rescue operations. A number of rescue boats have been seen on video circling the plane.
The rescue craft have been close to a web site near the Manhattan waterfront, close to the top of a protracted upkeep pier for one of many air flow towers for the Holland Tunnel. Fireplace vehicles and different emergency automobiles have been on streets close to the scene with their lights flashing.
The skies over Manhattan are routinely stuffed with each planes and helicopters, each personal leisure plane and business and vacationer flights. Manhattan has a number of helipads that whisk enterprise executives and others to locations all through the metropolitan space.
Through the years, there have been a number of crashes, together with a collision between a airplane and a vacationer helicopter over the Hudson River in 2009 that killed 9 folks and the 2018 crash of a constitution helicopter providing “open door” flights that went down into the East River, killing 5 folks.
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