“HEARTBREAKING”
The river is a busy transport channel and the scene of a dramatic 2009 incident when a US Airways jet safely landed within the water. All 155 individuals on board escaped with their lives in an occasion dubbed “Miracle on the Hudson”.
The river is as deep as 60m at factors, and an AFP correspondent noticed what seemed to be flotation units deployed on the plane’s skids.
The typical temperature of the river is 8 levels Celsius at the moment of 12 months, in accordance with the US Geological Survey.
“Three adults and three kids have been on board a Bell 206 helicopter that had left from the downtown Skyport at nearly 3pm,” Adams mentioned, including that the vacationers have been a household from Spain.
Police and hearth service (FDNY) divers raced to drag survivors from the wreckage, he mentioned.
“NYPD divers pulled 4 individuals from the crash web site, and FDNY Divers recovered a further two. Speedy lifesaving measures have been undertaken on the vessels on the scene, in addition to the adjoining pier,” police commissioner Jessica Tisch mentioned.
“4 victims have been pronounced useless on scene, and two extra have been eliminated to native space hospitals, the place, sadly, each succumbed to their accidents.”
