“But in this specific instance, throwing a blade—either one blade or the entire head—you’re just a falling brick.”
According to 71-year-old Michael Roth, owner of New York Helicopter, which supplied the tour and the helicopter, the plane was running low on fuel before to the disaster.
“It should have taken him around three minutes to arrive after he [the pilot] called in to say he was landing and that he needed fuel, but he didn’t show up twenty minutes later,”
Roth told The Telegraph. Roth expressed his sadness over the collision and concurred with other experts that the primary rotor blades seemed to have broken off in the footage.
He told the New York Post, “The only thing I know from watching a video of the helicopter falling down is that the main rotor blades weren’t on the helicopter.” And in my thirty years in the helicopter industry,
