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New York (AP) – Federal officials on Wednesday released images of helicopter traveling to sightseeing places in New York City as it broke in Midyar last month, killing six people.
Still a series of photos taken from the monitoring camera video shows the fusal, which consists of engines and rotors, which are separated from the tail of the helicopter. Rotor blades and transmissions then separate from the cabin carrying passengers and pilots.
The initial report about the flight released by the National Transport Safety Board included images.
The report said, “Many witnesses heard many vigorous ‘bangs’ before leaving the helicopter, before it broke and landed in the river.”
Justin Green, an aviation lawyer and former Marine helicopter pilot, said the sequence of images shows the helicopter seriously and the tail boom is failing, suggesting that the flight was most likely by the main rotor blades of the aircraft.
He said, “It is clear that some mechanical issues reduced the breakup,” he said. “We still do not know the accurate issues, there are only possible reasons.”
The initial NTSB report, which runs on about six pages, does not address the initial cause of “in-flight breakup of the aircraft”, he said. This will probably be determined by a forensic examination of debris, including rotor blades, engines and transmissions.
The Federal Aviation Administration Records The Aircraft, a bell was created in 206L-4, 2004 and was a maintenance issue last September which included its transmission assembly.
NTSB had earlier stated that the aircraft, which was operated by the tour company New York Helicopter, was not equipped with any video or data recording devices.
But on Wednesday, it was stated that the pictures already taken showed that the pilot, the scenery Johnson, were wearing a computer-August sunglasses, with video and audio recording capacity. However, glasses have not been recovered.
According to NTSB report, Johnson obtained a 36 -year -old former Navy Navy Seal in 2023 and logged in to 790 -hour flight.
According to a retired NTSB explorer al-Yurman, he did not specifically experience a bell 206L-4 flying, which said that the report found that he had a flight of less than 50 hours in that type of aircraft.
“It is quite sophisticated for that type of work,” said Yurman. “I would like to make someone more experienced, but we will learn more when the full report comes out.”
The report stated that Johnson worked “10 days/10 days’ and his first day was his first day after 10 days. The flight to the pilot and helicopter was also the eighth of the day.
The aircraft was on a specific tour, departing from the city’s Heliport by Wall Street around 3 pm and flying south towards the south with the Manhattan horizon, moving towards the Statue of Liberty.
In less than 18 minutes of flight, the witnesses saw the tail and the main rotor breaking and smoked with a spinning helicopter.
In recent years, New York helicopter, tour company, went through insolvency and faced the cases on alleged loans.
The company has said that it is collaborating with the authorities in the investigation. No one responded to the phone in his office or on Wednesday responded to an email seeking comment.
The accident was recently between aircraft disasters and close calls, which made some people concerned about the safety to fly in the US, also revived concerns about popular and expensive air tourism in New York city.
20 people were killed, 20 people were killed, resulting in five commercial scenic spots in the rivers around Manhattan since 2005, as a result of mechanical failure, pilot error or collision.
Agustin Escobar, 49; Mercy Montal, 39; Victor, 4, Mercedes,
Officials have said that the global CEO of Rail Infrastructure Escobar was in New York region at Siemens Mobility.
Montal, who worked for Siemens Energy and the famous Barcelona FC was the granddaughter of the FC Soccer Club, flew with her children to meet her.
A day after the accident, Mercedes turned 9 years old.
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