NEW YORK Tue Oct 4, 2011 6:03pm EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - One person died as well as four people were suffering a loss when a heli crashed in to New York City's East River on Tuesday, establishing off of a rescue effort in the choppy, murky waters, court arrest said.
The Bell 206 heli-copter crashed instances immediately after lifting away from coming from a heliport on 34th Street on the east aspect of Manhattan. Rescue individuals torn in two that pilot in addition to three persons in the river, whilst some sort of fourth passenger had been obvious lifeless on the scene.
The National Transportation Safety Board claimed it could take a look at the cause of the actual crash, which will occurred just before 3:30 p.m. neighborhood time. All some personal people have been tourists.
The privately-owned chopper went under easily right after smacking the particular dark, cold lake only legs from the the helipad. Within minutes, greater than a dozen watercraft along using all scuba divers and also unexpected emergency trades-people implementing ladders, flotation units in addition to buoys descended around the scene throughout endurance saving effort,
At minimum two of the individuals were seriously damaged within the accident.
(Reporting by Paul Thomasch ; Editing by way of )
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