Helicopter Makes Emergency Landing in Hudson River: Reports

A helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing in New York City’s Hudson River near Manhattan on Sunday, according to accounts posted on Twitter.
Helicopter Makes Emergency Landing in Hudson River: Reports
Jack Phillips
6/30/2013
Updated:
7/18/2015

A helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing in New York City’s Hudson River near Manhattan on Sunday, according to accounts posted on Twitter.

Users on Twitter said the helicopter went down near West 79th Street & Riverside Drive Street.

Photos on Twitter show the aircraft in the river.

John Branch with CNN reported that the “helicopter made an emergency landing in the #Hudson River near 79th Street, the FDNY said. All occupants are out of the helicopter,” according to his Twitter feed.

Lisa Farrell, a producer at CBS New York, reported the helicopter made a “hard landing” but there were no reports of injuries.

“Helicopter down in Hudson River the chopper is upright on floats fire reporting all people on board accounted for. Amazing,” one Twitter user said.

 

 

Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter with 15 years experience who started as a local New York City reporter. Having joined The Epoch Times' news team in 2009, Jack was born and raised near Modesto in California's Central Valley. Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/jackphillips5
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