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PBS News Hour - Segments

News Wrap: Investigators search for cause of tourist helicopter crash in New York

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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41K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In our news wrap Friday, investigators are working to determine why a tourist helicopter crashed into the Hudson River, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds will not seek reelection for a third term in 2026, the Senate confirmed Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan Caine to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Pentagon fired the commander of the Greenland space base that Vice President Vance visited last month. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Today's other headlines begin with the search for answers from Thursday's deadly crash

0:05.3

of a tourist helicopter into New York's Hudson River.

0:08.6

Eyewitness video captured the moment that the chopper plummeted in pieces into the waters

0:13.8

below, killing all six people on board.

0:16.9

The victims included Siemens Executive Augustine Escobar, his wife and their three young children, along with the pilot.

0:23.6

Diving team searched the river for the helicopter's rotors as well as its transmission today.

0:28.6

National Transportation Safety Board investigators said they needed those pieces to complete a fuller picture of what happened.

0:35.6

NTSB Chair, Jennifer Homandy, said it was still too early to draw conclusions.

0:40.4

We need to focus on finding some of the additional components and structures that we're looking

0:46.6

for, conduct witness interviews, and gather the records that we need.

0:51.6

We can review the records later, so that probable cause will not

0:55.4

occur for quite some time.

0:57.4

In the meantime, in Florida, another fatal incident involving an aircraft. A small plane crashed

1:03.8

near a highway in Boca Raton this morning, killing all three people on board, according

1:08.5

to police. Flames roared up from the crash, injuring another person nearby in a car.

1:14.3

The NTSB is also leading the investigation into that crash.

1:18.8

A Russian-American dual citizen is safely back on U.S. soil after being imprisoned in Russia

1:24.4

for 14 months on charges of treason for donating to a charity that

1:28.8

supported Ukraine.

1:30.4

An overjoyed, Kisenia Catalina hugged her boyfriend on the tarmac of Joint Base Andrews

1:35.9

overnight.

1:37.0

She was returned in a prisoner swap as the U.S. and Russia looked to normalize relations.

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