Agustin Escobar, the head of the Spanish division of tech giant Siemens, and his wife and three children were among those killed when a New York City sightseeing helicopter crashed into the Hudson ...

The chopper was seen crashing into the murky waters of the Hudson River, closer to the New Jersey side, at around 3.15pm. Witnesses say they saw the chopper 'split in half' before it went down ...

Videos on social media showed parts of the chopper - a Bell 206 - tumbling through the air into the water near the shoreline of Jersey City, New Jersey.

Video captured the moment that the chopper plummeted out of the sky and hit the water, near Pier 40. A family of tourists from Spain, including two children, and the pilot were all killed in the ...

A catastrophic mid-air crash was an accident waiting to happen when two helicopters flew towards a known collision risk point where flight paths intersected, an aviation expert says.

Multiple outlets citing anonymous law enforcement sources have identified five of the victims as Agustin Escobar, an executive of Siemens, along with his wife and their three children. Three adults ...

THE president of Siemens' Spanish branch Agustín Escobar, and his family have been identified as five of the six victims of the Hudson chopper crash. Mr Escobar, along with his wife and three ...

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey (WABC) -- Six people were killed after a tourist helicopter carrying a family from Spain crashed into New York City's Hudson River on Thursday afternoon. The crash was ...

But an anti-helicopter advocacy group told the Advance/SILive.com that the chopper traffic here and over other parts of the city isn’t just a nuisance but could be a deadly disaster waiting to ...

A catastrophic mid-air helicopter crash was preventable if a litany of technical and safety issues had been rectified before four people were killed and nine injured.