The Senator of the State of New York, Brad Hoylman-Sigal, has requested the prohibition of making tourist visits in helicopters in New York City Sensationally saying the tragic shock on Thursday in the Hudson River by little Avoid disaster that the helicopter crashed into a densely populated area.
Including the heartbreaking tragedy of this week, a total of 25 people have died in the large apple during the tourist helicopter tours in the last 40 years.
Now, Hoylman-Sigal (D-Manhatan) expressed a strong desire to limit traffic on the city to respond first and press, and said that New York should pass the helicopter routes.
“There is no reason to allow tourists and tour operators to use our valuable precious airspace,” 7 New York told ABC.
The state legislator added that there are very few security regulations in force for such tours that take place daily.
“The danger is that FAA regulates the airspace of more than 500 feet, so the city and the State are prohibited to approve laws that make tourist helicopters safer,” he added.
On Thursday, a family of five Spanish and an unidentified pilot died tragically after the Bell-4 Long Ranger IV helicopter in which they collapsed in the Hudson River.
Since then, five of the six victims have been identified as Agustin Escobar, his wife, Merce Camprubi Montal and his three children, of 4, 5 and 11 years.
The heartbreaking video images showed that the fuselage collapsed backwards and resulted in a large splash near Pier 40 in West Houston Street and West Street.
Witnesses described listening to a “boom sound” at the time of impact after the helicopter propellers went out of control to the river.
“Let’s evoke the possible disaster for only minutes. And that is the concern here. Which is if a helicopter gets into trouble in a stupated area like Manhattan, the disaster will be much worse,” today-Sigal Sid after the tragedy.
Hoylman-Sigal signed a legislation last year to move the current West 30th Street heliport outside the Hudson River Park.
The Big Apple has seen a series of helicopter tragedies in recent years.
In 2018, a tourist helicopter crashed into the East River, which led the five passengers to drown. Only the pilot survived the tragedy.
The order was a chilling echo of the 2011 disaster that Tok’s place when a helicopter crashed into the East River, killing three tourists.
The toke of order in the place only two years after another tourist helicopter collided with a small airplane in the air on the Hudson River. A total of nine people died in the burning disaster.