The Spanish who died Thursday with his family (wife and three children) in a Helicopter accident in New York is Agustín Escobar, a director of the Siemens company in Spainaccording to police sources. The minors were 4, 5 and 11 years old.
The Spanish embassy in the United States, contacted by EFE, did not want to specify those details and confirmed solely that there were five dead of Spanish nationality.
Agustín Escobar, a native of Puertollano (Ciudad Real) was a CEO of Railway Infrastructures (Rail Infrastructure) in Siemens Mobility At the global level since last November, when he was replaced as president and CEO of Siemens Spain by Fernando Silva.
His wife, Merce Camprubi Montal, occupied the Global Marketing Directorate in Siemens Energy and belongs to a well -known family from Barcelona. His brother Joan was a candidate in 2024 to preside over FC Barcelona and both his grandfather, Agustí Montal I Costa, as his great -grandfather, Agustí Montal Galabart, were presidents of this football club.
On the other hand, New York Helicopters Tours, a company that organizer of helicopter tourist trips, had posted this afternoon some photographs of the family moments before climbing in the white aircraft where they were going to find death.
They appear smiling posing before the cameras of the tourist company itself, in what seems like a usual practice of this company.
FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) points to that The helicopter took off from a bass heliport But at 3:35 pm he disappeared from the radar. A person who walked near the area declared to the ABC chain that “she listened a loud sound, looked there (referring to where the events occurred) and a helicopter crashed into the water,” he said, “I didn’t see anyone out of him before the impact”.
Other helicopter company accident
The New York Helicopter company, which operated the tourist helicopter that rushed this Thursday to the Hudson River in a fatal accident that cost the lives of five Spaniards and the pilot, He had already crashed previously, according to New York Post.
According to the American media, un helicopter of this company made an emergency landing in 2013 when it transported four Swedish tourists. Unlike the accident happened this Thursday, all passengers, including the pilot, survived.
At that time, the executive director of the tourist company that offers panoramic views of New York, Michael Roth, told Wall Street Journal that the helicopter underwent daily routine inspections, but that he had “no idea why” the aircraft had broken down during the flight.
This Thursday, Roth again assured that “I had no idea” why the accident that ended with the lives of six people happened, The pilot, two adults and three children and added: “I have not seen anything like that in the 30 years that I have been in the helicopter business.”