A tour company helicopter tumbled out of the sky over New York City on Thursday, April 10, eyewitnesses said — describing the ...

The phenomenon is unique to helicopters with semi-rigid rotors, like the Bell 206L4 LongRanger that fell out of the sky while flying a family of Spanish tourists. The pilot, two adult passengers ...

It's not a terribly common phenomenon, but it's happened before, particularly in smaller helicopters that have two rotor blades, Brauchle said. That configuration is typical for sightseeing ...

Homendy said investigators have the helicopter’s logbook and that the ... When this happens, a chopper’s two rotor blades tilt and effectively chop the craft’s body in half.

The main rotor of the doomed helicopter that crashed into the Hudson ... on the doomed aircraft — including the completion of two recent safety airworthiness directives the FAA had issued ...

“The only thing I know by watching a video of the helicopter falling down, that the main rotor blades weren’t ... pronounced dead at the scene, and two who “succumbed to their injuries ...