Chuck Schumer calls on tour company to halt flights as NTSB investigates crash that killed all six people on board
The helicopter that crashed into New York City’s Hudson River on Thursday – killing all six on board, including three children – lacked flight recorders, said the US’s National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
It was also on its eighth tour flight of the day, having already completed seven, according to federal investigators.
No video or camera recorders have been recovered from the Bell 206 helicopter, the NTSB said in an update late on Saturday – and none of the equipment on it had recorded information that would help the investigation.
I guess it will take time to do a proper investigation of the materials like the blades to see if there was a failure there, and where. Someone by now has seen something though and has a theory, they just can’t talk yet. There was low fuel mentioned, but running out of fuel doesn’t separate rotors from the hub.
The rotor didn’t separate from the hub, the transmission and mast and rotor separated from the helicopter, suddenly and seemingly without warning based on the available video.
Okay, I just saw the one where the rotors were flying apart, I guess after the fact.