Max, another eyewitness, told ABC News about the horrific incident and how he first heard about it before witnessing it himself.
Max recounted, “I looked up because it sounded like a sonic boom and saw a helicopter splitting in two with the rotor flying off in the sky. It was going so fast and it just went straight into the water.”
After that, nothing happened; it must have simply sunk. I stayed here until, about five minutes later, the police and other personnel began to arrive.
“That is unlike anything I have ever seen in my life.” A tragic detailAgustín Escobar, a Siemens executive from Barcelona, his wife Merce Camprubi Montal,
And their three young children, ages 11, 5, and 4, have been identified as the victims of the sad helicopter crash in the Hudson River.
According to the Spanish newspaper El Diario, the family had recently arrived in New York City and was there to celebrate the birthday of one of their children when the accident happened.
