Shortly after the flowers have been thrown close to the location of the crash, Joan Camprubi and Mayor Eric Adams spoke to the press.
“They left together. They left without suffering,” Camprubi stated.
“We mourn the lives of Agustín, Merce and their three beautiful children, Victor, Mercedes and Augustine. Our hearts are broken,” Adams added.
“You have 8.5 million New Yorkers who want to say to the family members and to the wider Spanish community that we are here with you, and this symbolic gesture is our way of knowing and acknowledging that our words cannot bring back their family members, but it is our way of saying as New Yorkers, we stand united with this family during this moment of grief, and their grief is our grief,” Adams stated.
Now relations of the victims are asking for privateness as they proceed to mourn their family members.
“We want to move the bodies as soon as possible, home, back home, with all the family, to rest in peace together in our place,” Camprubi stated.
“But also we want to thank all the institutional support that we received, starting from Spain, from also Catalonia, from U.S., New York, New Jersey. Everybody has been supporting us, and especially also Siemens as a company, where Merce and Agustín were working,” he continued.The doomed plane, a Bell 206, broke aside over the Hudson River Thursday afternoon and plunged into the water under with a loud increase, killing the Spanish household of 5 and the pilot on board throughout a tour over Manhattan that was meant to rejoice one of many relations’ birthdays.
Agustín Escobar and Merce Camprubi Montal, a married couple from Spain, have been recognized as two of the grownup victims. The Spanish Overseas Ministry confirmed that the couple and their three kids died within the helicopter crash.
A senior New York Metropolis official informed NBC New York the third grownup sufferer was the pilot, Sean Johnson. Johnson was 36 years outdated, in keeping with the Jersey Metropolis mayor’s workplace.
Officers who’ve been working to get better the items of the helicopter and different particles from the Hudson stated the plane was operated by the tour firm New York Helicopters.
Six individuals died after a tour helicopter crashed into the Hudson River Thursday afternoon.
The Nationwide Transportation Security Board is main the investigation. The reason for the crash stays unclear.
NBC aviation analyst Jeff Guzzetti stated on NBC’s “TODAY” present Friday that climate doesn’t seem like an element, though there have been some gusts and wind within the space. He famous they’re trying into potential {hardware} points that might have befallen the flight.
