Who has not yet been named, had called the base to inform them that the group was heading back to the helipad. Sadly, they didn’t make it.
“I have never in my life seen anything like that.” The aircraft overturned in the water close to Spring Street and the West Side Highway in Manhattan, according to footage from the horrific disaster.
Witnesses reported that before the plane crashed into the river, the rotor blades and tail seemed to separate in midair.
A witness claimed to have heard the helicopter “splitting in two” and making a sound “like a sonic boom.
” The crash “sounded like thunder,” according to another bystander, who also remembered seeing “black particles flying” in the air.
