- By Ajeet Kumar
- Sun, 13 Apr 2025 07:55 AM (IST)
- Source:JND
New York plane crash news: At least one person died after a small plane carrying six people crashed on Saturday afternoon about 50 miles (80 km) south of New York state capital Albany, the Federal Aviation Administration and police said. The Mitsubishi MU-2B went down in a muddy field at 12:15 p.m. (1615 GMT) in Copake, New York, near the Massachusetts state line and the plane was bound for the Columbia County Airport, near Hudson, New York, the Columbia County Sheriff's office said.
It was not immediately clear if there were other injuries or fatalities. Both the FAA and the local sheriff's office said that National Transportation Safety Board officials would provide more information on Sunday. At a press conference, Columbia's Undersheriff, Jacqueline Salvatore, told reporters that snow and wet ground were hampering response efforts. It is in the middle of a field and it's pretty muddy, so accessibility is difficult, she said. It was not immediately clear Saturday afternoon what had caused the plane to crash.
New York helicopter crash
The crash came a day after a tourist helicopter plummeted upside down into New York City's Hudson River, killing all six people on board, including a Spanish family with three children and the pilot. Agustin Escobar, CEO of Rail Infrastructure at Siemens Mobility, the train transportation arm of Germany-based technology company Siemens, was killed in the accident.
Video of the crash showed what appeared to be a large object plunging into the river, followed seconds later by what appeared to be a helicopter blade. Afterwards, emergency and police boats were seen circling around a patch of river where the helicopter was submerged, with only what appeared to be the aircraft's landing gear poking above the water's surface.
The Bell 206 chopper, operated by New York Helicopter Tours, departed at about 3 p.m. ET (1900 GMT) from a downtown helicopter pad and flew north over the Hudson River, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. It turned south when it reached the George Washington Bridge and crashed minutes later, hitting the water upside down and sinking near Lower Manhattan about 3:15 p.m., just off Hoboken, New Jersey, Tisch added.