The Big Apple company that operated the condemned tourist helicopter that immersed itself in the Hudson Thorsday river previously terrified in the same murky waters.
A helicopter that belongs to the New York helicopter letter in June 2013, which transported four Swedish tourists when he lost power and made an emergency landing.
The pilot and the four family members survived miraculously, without reported wounds, after the aviator displayed the pontoons of the plane and landed safely in the river.
The CEO Michael Roth told the Wall Street Journal at that time that the helicopter suffered daily routine inspections, but that “I had no idea why” the plane did not work in the middle of the flight.
Now, 12 years later, Roth is expressing his devastation for the tragic events that killed a pilot and a family of five of five vacation in Spain that “has no idea” of what happened.
“I am absolutely devastated,” said Roth, who was visible trembling, to the post after the accident.
“The only thing I know when you see a video of the helicopter that falls, that the main blades of the rotor are in the helicopter. And I host something like that in my 30 years in the business, in the helicopter business,” he continued.
“The only thing I could guess, I have no idea, it was that it had a bird’s blow or the main rotor blades failed. I have no idea. I don’t know.”
The chilling images captured the Bell 206 helicopter “divided in the middle” in the air and collapsed in the cold waters near Muelle 40, the Hoboken border of New Jersey around 3:15 pm, promising a large -scale rescue mission.
The head of the Spanish branch of the Siemens Technology Company and his family were identified as five of the victims who were killed. The pilot identity has not been announced.
Agustin Escobar, president and CEO of Siemens in Spain, his wife and three children had just reached the Big Apple from Barcelona earlier in the day, sources of application of the law said.
It is still an uncle that caused the accident.