For decades, New York Velicopter went to the sky around New York. But the company had some difficulties in front of one of their excursion crooksFell into the Hudson RiverThis week,Killing all six peopleOn board.
Was aClose the call in 2013If another helicopter suddenly lost strength depending on, and the pilot maneuvering him for a safe landing on the pontoon in Hudson.
And over the last eight years, the company has survived bankruptcy and has been facing current lawsuits.
In January this year, the company was sued for more than $ 1.4 million, which it stopped paying for the rent.
Credit Cashsued in FebruarySaying that the company has blocked payments on a weekly loan and borrowed over $ 83,000. The New York helicopter has not yet answered.
The phones called unanswered at the company’s offices on Friday. In the house of the owner Michael Roth, a comment was left where the one who responded to the phone on Thursday night told the Associated Press that the mouth did not comment. He hadsaid NEW YORK POSTHe was surprised and devastated as a result of the crash.
“It’s awful,” the newspaper quoted Roth. “But you have to remember something: these are machines and they break.”
Founded in the 1990s, a business business, which was also known by name, including New York Helicopter Charter Inc. And New York Helicopter Tours LLC, offers tourists the view of a bird’s gaze on the Liberty Status, Central Park and Manhattan horizon. One of the few firms with a license that allows it to fly near the main attractions of New York, it also offers shutters to airports and charter flights for executives and others.
The air space around Manhattan is busy, difficult and sometimes deadly.More than three dozen people diedIn touring and other crashes in New York in the last half-century. Just a few weeks ago as wellA settlement of 90 million dollarsThe illegal lawsuit filed by relatives of one of the five passengers, killed in the 2018 Excursion Review, which was managed by another company, ended.
Mayor Eric Adams noted during an interview on Friday that tens of thousands of flights a year were working safely from the helicopter of Nizhny Manhattan, where the tour took place on Thursday. Asked if he had specific problems about the New York helicopter, he only replied that investigators were considering what happened.
said the mayor of democracy Fox 5/WNYW-TV he would not like to stop the following flights: “Air trips are crucial for this city.”
The New York helicopter website states that “the leading security records”, but it did not do without it. ANational Transport Security Council attributed electricity failure in 2013In part to a “wrong maintenance solution” about the issue of oil pressure.
Two years later New York helicopterThe craft went to the spinSupporting low from the helicopter, heavily landing, but safely with a pilot on board. At the time, NTSB accused an unknown person who drew a bad part – he noted as such as a shot, which recently a New York helicopter was leased from anyone who had just bought it. The new owner advised that the part had arrived with fresh paint.
New York Helicopter got into financial problems after New YorkTwice in 2017 the helicopter traffic in 2017According to the 2019 bankruptcy case.
As the flights were reduced, but the landing fees increased, in 2018 the company decreased from $ 4.5 million in 2017 to $ 3.9 million. New York helicopter said he had reduced employees from 30 employees to 13.
Until 2019, he transferred $ 6 million and $ 1.6 million, including hundreds of thousands of dollars for landing and repair accounts.
The business arose from bankruptcy in 2022, but obviously continued to face financial winds.
Last June Companyfiled a lawsuitDue to what he called the “unreasonable” terms of the 2018 loan, which he received from another cash. The helicopter company abandoned the case this month. It is unclear whether there is any financial or other settlement.
The messages were sent to the lawyer who represented the company.
Originally this story was presented on Fortune.com
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Jennifer Peltz, The Associated Press
