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Helicopter & Small Plane collide over NYC

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TangoJuliet

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NEW YORK (CNN) -- One person was rescued from the Hudson River on Saturday after a tour helicopter collided with a small plane, the Coast Guard said. A helicopter believed to have six people on board collided with a plane over the river between Lower Manhattan and Hoboken, New Jersey, New York Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne told CNN.

Rescue divers and Coast Guard boats were searching the water. The helicopter belonged to Liberty Helicopter Sightseeing Tours.

Arlene Salac, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said the tour company Liberty had confirmed the helicoper was one of its own.

The plane apparently left from Teterboro Airport in Teaneck, New Jersey. Salac said radar contact was lost with a small plane this morning, and that is the one the FAA believes crashed. iReport.com: Were you there? Send images

Ron Marsico, spokesman for the New York Port Authority, said a small plane landed at Teterboro to pick up one passenger late Saturday morning. The plane took off at 11:54 a.m., he said.
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NEW YORK ? A small plane collided with a tour helicopter carrying about a half-dozen people over the Hudson River on Saturday, sending debris into the river and onto the Hoboken, N.J., waterfront.

The accident happened just after noon between Manhattan and Hoboken, N.J. The Coast Guard said one person had been rescued and New York City Fire Department officials on the scene said there appear to have been fatalities.

The plane, a Piper PA-32, took off from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, and the helicopter was a Eurocopter AS 350 owned by Liberty Tours, a sightseeing and charter company, Federal Aviation Administration officials said. Officials don't know how many people were aboard the plane, but FAA spokesman Jim Peters said there may have been five passengers and one crew member aboard the helicopter.

Emergency crews were on both sides of the river and police divers were going into the water.

People who saw the crash and its aftermath described the two aircraft colliding not far from the Hoboken shoreline, and said the impact sheared off the plane's wing.

"There was a loud pop, almost like a car backfire," said Buzz Nahas, who saw the crash from the shore in Hoboken. "The helicopter dropped like a rock."

Katie Tanski, of Hoboken, heard the noise of the collision, looked up and saw chaos in the air.

"We saw the helicopter propellers fly all over," she said. Some pieces of the wreckage fell on land, sending Tanski and others scurrying for cover.

Seven months ago, the same river was the scene of a spectacular aircraft accident. In January, a US Airways flight taking off from LaGuardia Airport slammed into a flock of birds and lost power in both engines. The plane crash-landed in the Hudson River, and all 155 people on board were pulled to safety.

Liberty Tours runs sightseeing excursions around the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and Manhattan at costs ranging from $130 to about $1,000.

A person who answered the phone at a Liberty Tours office declined to comment on the accident, but said the company would be releasing a statement.

Two years ago, a Liberty helicopter fell 500 feet from the sky during a sightseeing trip. The pilot was credited with safely landing the chopper in the same river and helping evacuate her seven passengers.

In 1997, a rotor on one of its sightseeing helicopters clipped a Manhattan building, forcing an emergency landing. No one was hurt.
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Yur sposda post your own opinions wit teh nuws artical.
Like "THIS SUCKS!" or "DIS RULES!".

My opinion, it sucks, but I bet all the new york ass holes will say "YAAAAYY, less tourists!"
 
Originally posted by: shortylickens
Yur sposda post your own opinions wit teh nuws artical.
Like "THIS SUCKS!" or "DIS RULES!".

My opinion, it sucks, but I bet all the new york ass holes will say "YAAAAYY, less tourists!"
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I'm not allowed to comment on accidents that are being investigated by the FAA.
 
Originally posted by: TangoJuliet
Originally posted by: shortylickens
Yur sposda post your own opinions wit teh nuws artical.
Like "THIS SUCKS!" or "DIS RULES!".

My opinion, it sucks, but I bet all the new york ass holes will say "YAAAAYY, less tourists!"
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I'm not allowed to comment on accidents that are being investigated by the FAA.
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Unless you are the controller or directly involved with the investigation, I believe that you are allowed to express opinions.

 
Originally posted by: shortylickens
Yur sposda post your own opinions wit teh nuws artical.
Like "THIS SUCKS!" or "DIS RULES!".

My opinion, it sucks, but I bet all the new york ass holes will say "YAAAAYY, less tourists!"
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Not in OT.
 
Originally posted by: Common Courtesy
Originally posted by: TangoJuliet
Originally posted by: shortylickens
Yur sposda post your own opinions wit teh nuws artical.
Like "THIS SUCKS!" or "DIS RULES!".

My opinion, it sucks, but I bet all the new york ass holes will say "YAAAAYY, less tourists!"
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I'm not allowed to comment on accidents that are being investigated by the FAA.
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Unless you are the controller or directly involved with the investigation, I believe that you are allowed to express opinions.
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You should probably check my prior posts to see what I do and where I work.

All 9 are presumed dead

Nine people were presumed dead Saturday after a small plane collided with a tourist helicopter over the Hudson River, sending both aircrafts spiraling into the murky waters.
The dead included five Italian tourists taking a helicopter tour above Manhattan, both pilots and two passengers on the single-engine plane - including a child, Mayor Bloomberg said. Two bodies were recovered in the hours after the noon crash on a clear, sunny day where witnesses on both sides of the Hudson watched the midair collision in disbelief. The accident, which witnesses said sheared off one of the plane's wings and dropped the helicopter like a stone from the sky, was "not survivable," a somber Bloomberg told a Manhattan news conference.

"This is not going to have a happy ending," the mayor said. It was the city's worst air disaster since American Airlines Flight 587 went down in November 2001, killing 265 people.
One victim's body was found in the water off 14th St. following the crash, police sources said. The second was recovered from a piece of wreckage found in the river, Bloomberg said.

Coast Guard ships, police divers and helicopters joined in the desperate but ultimately fruitless hunt for survivors from the two downed aircraft. Police said visibility was about two feet in the 30-foot water.

There were five Italian tourists and a pilot on the Eurocopter AS 530, operated by Liberty Helicopters, sources said. The pilot and two passengers - one a child - were aboard the Piper PA-32 plane.

"I heard a noise, looked up, and seen a small plane and a helicopter just going down," recounted eyewitness Richard Martyn, who watched the crash from a West Side bike path.
"It was like a muffled boom," he said. "I'm still shaking."
The single-engine plane was registered to a Pennsylvania company and departed from Teterboro Airport, a police source said. It was reportedly heading to Ocean City, N.J.
The tower at Newark Airport reporting losing contact with the plane at noon over the Hudson, said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Arlene Salac.
Witnesses said the plane's left wing clipped the chopper's rotor, sending both aircraft plunging into the Hudson.

Eyewitness Scott Reynolds, 42, said the helicopter seemed to explode after the collision above the New Jersey side of the river. "There was a white puff," said the Florida tourist. "It looked like the rotors just exploded, like something hit him."

Vern Brownell, a private pilot from Hoboken, N.J., said there was a huge bang - "like a cannon" - before the helicopter and the plane dropped like stones into the river.
"I looked over and saw two aircrafts falling from the sky," he said.

The single-engine plane "lost its wing" in the crash, he said, before spiraling into the water.
Rescue ships responded quickly to the crash site, where rescue efforts were hampered by spilled fuel oil that turned the river even murkier.

The chopper's propeller separated from its body as the helicopter plunged into the water, according to one witness."I just looked up, and I saw parts of the propeller in the air," said eyewitness Alanna Duffy, 29. "They were mangled."
Ambulances, fire trucks and police vehicles sped to the scene just south of 14th St. near Pier 54.
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YAAAAYY, less tourists!

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Per discussion by our moderators, your time out is suspended because it was in direct response to another member's post. That said, it was sick and sicker because it was within minutes of the tragedy.

Personally, I see no value in allowing people who find pleasure or humor in the tragic deaths of others to post on our forums. 🙁

Harvey
Senior AnandTech Moderator
 
Originally posted by: amdhunter
YAAAAYY, less tourists!

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YAAAAYY, less amdhunter!

Go away for a week. Next time, it will be much longer.

Harvey
Senior AnandTech Moderator
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thanks mods! can you smell that clean air?!
 
FUCK! :Q
I was just kidding!
Looks like the mods didnt think it was too funny. In all fairness I think AMDHunter was kidding too, since he copied me exactly.
Or was he shot down for making a joke in poor taste?
 
Originally posted by: shortylickens
FUCK! :Q
I was just kidding!
Looks like the mods didnt think it was too funny. In all fairness I think AMDHunter was kidding too, since he copied me exactly.
Or was he shot down for making a joke in poor taste?
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I imagine it has to do with his trolling ways
 
Originally posted by: Scouzer
Was it in controlled airspace? I'd have to imagine that whole area is...
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No, that whole area is uncontrolled. There area portions of the hudson that are controlled but where the accident occurred it was not.
 
Originally posted by: TangoJuliet
You should probably check my prior posts to see what I do and where I work.
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Which of the 3,000 posts?

was it really hard to type "I am an Air Traffic Controller at LaGuardia Airport" ?








 
Originally posted by: hx009
Originally posted by: TangoJuliet

You should probably check my prior posts to see what I do and where I work.
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OR you could quit being Mr. Mysterious and just tell us.
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I like being mysterious 😉

Originally posted by: guyver01
Originally posted by: TangoJuliet
You should probably check my prior posts to see what I do and where I work.
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Which of the 3,000 posts?

was it really hard to type "I am an Air Traffic Controller at LaGuardia Airport" ?

yes it is hard. i did not want to type that in the thread because this forum is heavily linked to google search.
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