New York City Mayor Eric Adams said a tourist helicopter turned upside down into New York City’s Hudson River on Thursday, killing all six people on board, including a Spanish family with three children and a pilot.

According to the New York Times, Agustin Escobar, an executive based in German technology company Siemens, was killed.

New York City police mentioned requests to confirm Escobar boarded a helicopter to the U.S. Coast Guard. The Coast Guard said in a statement that no victim’s name has been found. Siemens did not immediately respond to requests for comment outside normal working hours.

Video of the crash showed that it appeared to be a large object crashing into the river, and then a few seconds later, it appeared to be a helicopter blade.

Afterwards, the emergency ship and the police ship were seen hovering on a river where the helicopter was flooded, and only the aircraft’s landing gear poked above the water.

New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the Bell 206 chopper, operated by the New York Helicopter Tour, departed from the helicopter pad downtown at 3 p.m. ET (PKT) and flew north on the Hudson River.

When it reached George Washington Bridge, it turned south, crashed a few minutes later, hung upside down, sinking around 3:15 pm (12:15 AM) in the lower Manhattan, just in Hoboken, New Jersey (PKT), Tisch, Tisch added.

Dani Horbiak, a 29-year-old resident in Jersey City, New Jersey, said she witnessed a crash in a window while working from home.

“I’m looking out the window here and seeing the helicopter dropping on debris, I’m watching multiple debris splashing into the river below, and I want to know what’s going on,” she told Reuters.

“But I put the pieces together and it sounds like I might have heard something that propellers stabbed in the sm.” Horbiak said she was “shaken” by the incident, and later said the emergency service had said the service had sent responders to the scene.

Divers help remove victims from the water. Four people were announced to be dead at the scene, while two others were taken to a local hospital where they died.

Bird’s sight

The airspace around Manhattan is packed with helicopters, providing visitors with bird’s eye view, and at least twenty operators are listed on the Tour website Viator. Many operators also provide helicopter shuttle services to airports in the area.

New York Helicopter Tour offers sightseeing flights on its website for $114 per person, but did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the crash.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the travel helicopter is in a special flight rules area established in New York, meaning no air traffic control services were provided during the crash.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will conduct the investigation, which led the investigation.

Duffy said the FAA also launched a security review team Thursday night. NTSB Chairman Jennifer Homendy and a team from the board will arrive in New York on Thursday with a media briefing scheduled on Friday.

In 2018, five passengers on a helicopter died in New York when the pilot survived the East River. The helicopter is flying in a charter that has an open door that allows passengers to take pictures of the skyline.

A New York City police spokesman said the police ship had assisted with the rescue efforts on Thursday.

Helicopter safety has been a topic of discussion in the U.S. Congress in a crash of US Airlines regional jets and Army helicopters near Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C.

Since then, the FAA has permanently restricted helicopter traffic near the airport and is reviewing helicopter operations near other major airports.