New York City | George Hatcher's Air Flight Disaster https://airflightdisaster.com Aviation News, Headlines & Alerts Sat, 04 Oct 2014 16:01:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Bird-Struck Helicopter Makes Emergency landing Along Hudson River https://airflightdisaster.com/bird-struck-helicopter-makes-emergency-landing-along-hudson-river/ Sat, 04 Oct 2014 16:01:20 +0000 http://airflightdisaster.com/?p=29228 A bird-struck helicopter had to land in emergency at the West 30th Street heliport on the Hudson River, New York City, on the afternoon of October 3. According to the FAA, the Bell B407 helicopter was hit by a bird while it was some 6 miles west-southwest of LaGuardia Airport. The helicopter belongs to an...

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]]> HelicopterA bird-struck helicopter had to land in emergency at the West 30th Street heliport on the Hudson River, New York City, on the afternoon of October 3.

According to the FAA, the Bell B407 helicopter was hit by a bird while it was some 6 miles west-southwest of LaGuardia Airport.

The helicopter belongs to an aerial tour company. According to the General manager Kathleen Wiig, the incident happened when the helicopter was flying at around 1,500 feet and that the protocol requires immediate landing in such situations.

There were 7 people on-board at the time of incident, none of them required any medical attention.

The FAA is investigating.

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