Beautiful family:
More photos of the family:
https://nypost.com/2025/04/10/us-news/nyc-hudson-river-helicopter-crash-victims-idd-as-family-of-5-on-vacation-from-spain/
They looked so happy...
Posted on 04/10/2025 2:58:44 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
A helicopter carrying a family of tourists from Spain crashed into the Hudson River Thursday afternoon – killing all six passengers on board, according to fire officials and sources.
Rescue efforts are underway after witnesses saw the Bell 206 chopper “split in half” before it went down near Pier 40 on West Houston Street and West Street around 3:15 p.m., the New York City Fire Department told The Post.
Sources told The Post all six people on board were killed, which included two adults, three children and the pilot.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
That wasn’t my point in mentioning those two birds - it wad in regards to the rotors getting out of sync. Had a 45 do just that during a det to Indian Springs; twisted in half like a soda can.
The “on scene” News Max reporter mentioned the blades came off.
46 not 45 ... damm fat thumb disease again.
NY Post has very sad photos of the vacationing family posing next to the copter and seated inside smiling.
Beautiful family:
More photos of the family:
https://nypost.com/2025/04/10/us-news/nyc-hudson-river-helicopter-crash-victims-idd-as-family-of-5-on-vacation-from-spain/
They looked so happy...
Yeah, but the only way they get out of sync is a sync shaft failure either the mechanism (shaft) fails or there is a tunnel strike (the parts covering the shaft.) As this was a tail rotor helo that doesn’t exist.
The 206 in question has a ‘teetering’ rotor system not a fully articulated head.
Tragic - Family of 5 all deceased when their tour helicopter broke apart in the air.
https://x.com/ConstantUnder/status/1910440246833013237
Aww, geez, you win... general references...
Makes sense and consistent with video of inverted descent with no main rotor and no (or very little) tail boom - don't see that very often.
Victims are Spanish CEO and his family. Hmmm.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/us/hudson-helicopter-crash-what-we-know-intl-hnk/index.html
They actually died on impact or drowned but yeah I get it.
We don’t know that the pilot was messing around.
There are a lot of scenarios that could explain what happened.
I trust Trump’s NTSB to get to the bottom of it.
And if they have to go through NYS to do it, fine with me.
We don’t know that the pilot wasn't messing around.
I don’t see a connection. It was a mechanical failure. Sabotage? I doubt it.
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Helicopters vibrate.
That affects rotational balance (and a lot of other things).
The rotating things, are always trying to leave.
GOOD: Inspect, more often than “statistics say.”
BAD: Inspect, only when “statistics say.”
Yes. I read that.
It is a chicken or egg issue. Did the main rotor flex and hit the tail? Did the main rotor break? Was it a failure in the yoke. Someone commented earlier that model Bell helicopter had a Fully Articulated Rotor System.
view here:
https://pilotswhoaskwhy.com/2025/03/23/helicopter-rotor-systems-what-every-pilot-needs-to-know/
I don’t understand how all of this works.
Yes. I knew they were complicated and not all alike.
Past that, I am in the dark.
Last chopper I was on was a Chinook helicopter. I never got over the foam on oil and sound of the rear rotor gearbox as you look out the tail of it.
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