Federal aviation regulators issued an emergency order Monday grounding the helicopter tour company involved in a deadly New York crash.

Federal Aviation Administration records show the Bell 206L-4 LongRanger IV, operated by New York Helicopter Tours, experienced a mechanical issue with its transmission assembly in September 2024. The ...

The crash, which occurred at Pier 40 in the late afternoon, involved a Bell 206L-4 LongRange IV helicopter which took off from lower Manhattan, circled the Statue of Liberty, and flew north along the ...

The pilot, identified as Sean Johnson, had 788 hours of total flight time, but it is unclear how much in the Bell Helicopter. On Friday, the NTSB chair acknowledged that the helicopter breaking ...

A New York City sightseeing helicopter broke apart and crashed into the Hudson River near the New Jersey shoreline, killing the pilot and a Spanish family of five who were on board. Pieces of the ...

A chilling radio call made by the pilot of the tour helicopter just moments before ... It has not yet been established what caused the Bell 206 aircraft to plummet from the skies during the ...

Two years later, in May 2015, a Bell 206L-3 New York Helicopter chopper was "substantially damaged" during a hard landing in Kearny, New Jersey, leaving the pilot injured. The subsequent ...

According to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, the aircraft, a Bell 206 flying for New York Helicopters, took off from a Lower Manhattan heliport at 2:59 p.m. It flew along the Manhattan shoreline ...

The helicopter, a Bell 206 LongRanger IV, was built in 2004. According to FAA records, it had a maintenance issue last September involving its transmission assembly. An entry in the agency’s ...

Flightradar 24 which monitors air traffic real time said the aircraft involved is likely to be N216MH, a Bell 206L-4 LongRanger IV. "We’re following reports of a helicopter crash in the Hudson ...

Just two weeks before a deadly helicopter crash over the Hudson River, Navy veteran Sean Johnson posted a video of himself flying past the Freedom Tower. “When it all comes together,” the 36-year-old ...

A tragic helicopter crash in the Hudson River claimed the lives of six people, including a tech executive from Spain, his wife, their three children, and the pilot. Witnesses reported seeing the ...