A helicopter crashed in New York City’s Hudson River near lower Manhattan on Thursday afternoon, killing six people.
The passengers were a vacationing family from Spain, three kids and two adults, as well as a pilot, ABC 7 reported.
New York City Fire Department officials told the Washington Examiner they received a distress call at 3:17 p.m. The helicopter crashed close to the Jersey City, New Jersey, side of the river, they confirmed. Authorities are still investigating what led to the crash.
The aircraft appeared to be a 2004 Bell 206L-4 LongRanger IV with registration number N216MH, according to publicly available flight data. The registration number matches a listing under Meridian Helicopters, a Louisiana-based company.
Flight records show the aircraft last took off at 2:59 p.m.
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