A group of divers from the Hudson Valley Commercial Diving School happened to be at the restaurant where Denise Rivera dropped her engagement ring into the Hudson River.
A bird strike, likely involving multiple geese, brought down a sightseeing helicopter over the Hudson River in April 2025, killing a Spanish family of five and their pilot, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded in a report released this week. The Bell 206L-4 helicopter, operated by New York Helicopter Charter Inc., broke apart in midair […] The post NTSB finds bird strike most likely caused deadly Hudson River helicopter crash appeared first on American Almanac .
A bird strike, likely involving multiple geese, brought down a sightseeing helicopter over the Hudson River in April 2025, killing a Spanish family of five and their pilot, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded in a report released this week. The Bell 206L-4 helicopter, operated by New York Helicopter Charter Inc., broke apart in midair roughly 17 minutes after lifting off from lower Manhattan on the afternoon of April 10, 2025. It fell into the Hudson River near the New Jersey shoreline. No one survived. The NTSB's findings bring a measure of clarity to a crash that devastated a vacationing family and raised fresh questions about the safety of tour helicopter operations over one of the most congested airspaces in the…Open
In one of the most spectacular sights on this Fourth of July, a parade of tall ships sailed up the Hudson River in New York City in the largest maritime parade in modern history.
A small plane attempting an emergency landing crashed into the frigid Hudson River, but the pilot and a passenger escaped the wreckage and safely swam to shore