Mid-Air Collision Over The Hudson- Exclusive Photos!

These photos were taken by an old woman who were trying to take some shots of both aircraft close together but it ended up they crashed to each other. She submitted those to FOX news only!

These are the only photos believed to be taken of this deadly crash! No High Quality Pics available from FOX NEWS!

Liberty tour sightseeing charter company helicopter, Eurocopter AS 350, carrying five Italian tourists collided with a small Piper PA-32 plane on Saturday noon, August 08, 2009 over the Hudson River in Lower Manhattan. All nine people aboard are believed to be killed.

The instrument-rated pilot of the Piper, 60-year-old Steven Altman, departed from nearby Teterboro Airport moments before the collision, after stopping to pick up his brother and his nephew. There was some confusion between Altman and the Teterboro tower controller as to which route the Piper would take toward its destination, Ocean City in southern New Jersey. Ultimately, Altman said, "Tell you what, I'll take down the river." That placed the Piper inside the Hudson River VFR corridor, a narrow strip of VFR airspace that extends from the surface to 1,100 feet, and from the New York side of the river to the east and the New Jersey side to the west. Altitude readouts for the Lance show it flying at just that height or about 100 feet lower until the collision moments later. The helicopter, a Eurocopter AS350 operated by Liberty Helicopter Tours, had departed from the 30th Street Heliport and was in a climbing turn southbound as part of its planned 12-minute tour. Along with the pilot, New Zealander Jeremy Clarke, 33, were five tourists from Bologna, Italy. The right wing of the Piper separated after it contacted the rotor disc of the helicopter and both aircraft spun into the water with nonsurvivable impact.

All the crash victims may REST IN PEACE!

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Mid-Air
• Collision
• Over
• The
• Hudson
• River
• Helicopter
• and
• Small
• Piper
• Piper PA-32
• saratoga
• Eurocopter AS 350
• moment
• impact
• Fatal
• Accident
• Mayor
• Michael
• Bloomberg's
• Press
• Release
• New
• York
• City
• NYC
• Lower
• Manhattan
• New York
• Italian
• Tourist
• Glenn
• Pew
• mid-air collision
• air accident
• air emergency
• emergency landing
• rescue
• chopper
• crash
• nine
• killed
• REST
• IN
• PEACE
• FOX
• NEWS
• Exclusive

[suturasuprema]

wow!!!great photos...where did you get it??? cheers pal.

[CaptainFaisal]

from FOX News!

[ohXitsXelle]

i can assure you these are not the only photos. i was on the boat with the people who took them. they are the only ones of the actual collision, but not the immediate wreckage after. my mom has a really sad picture were you can see a chair, empty, floating obviously ripped from one of the aircrafts and various others. i would just never sell them.

[BillyKropotkin]

In FREE AMERICA people are taught in sunday school not to use such foul language. Were you not listening?

[pmest]

lo

that so funny

[alexandra512]

How do you know God blesses those who don't take life for granted? I haven't seen anything that supports that statement.. you just made that up! Seems to me that God doesn't bless anyone in particular. Some people are just luckier than others.

[pilotmburu]

Read up on your Bible a little more Princess!

[moodbreaker]

I just saw on CNN Anderson Cooper was talking to an aviation expert. The expert said that the airplane type had low visibility below the aircraft itself. And that the helicopter was facing straight ahead as well at the time. In other words, they would've only been able to see each other once they were in each others immediate vicinity. Once they were so close the impact was virtually unavoidable.

[kksandy71]

I think its terrible that people expect God to save everyone like God is some kind of superman. Just be grateful that you are able to experience life. Life is full of risk and its up to us if we take those risk or not, but you have to always be aware of the consequences of taking those risk! God blesses those who dont take life for granted, those who live everyday like its the last, because it could possible for any of us.

[stefanorso]

I can't work out why the Piper's pilot overlooked the heli. Probably he underestimated its speed. We can't exclude he was teaching the boy to fly and he had turned to him, on the right, whilst the helicopter was on the left.

The hypotesis that the heli was flying on autopilot is not impossible. The accident was definitely not survivable. The heli didn't perform any maneuver, the airplane an almost unperceivable attempt to turn on the right, just 1/100 second before being smashed by the rotor

[bbecht1]

All I have to say is GOD BLESS THOSE WHO DIED and GOD BLESS AMERICA!

[NYsailormoon]

Well. I believe in GOD, like it or not, so you go and SUCK ON IT !!! non of your fucking business. God exists, I pray for god and you are NOT gonna fucking deny me that. This is the FREE AMERICA and if you don't like that you RETARD, go and live in your LUNATIC planet.

[thermonuclearwarfare]

this type of accident can happen more easily than most people think.

a pilots view from the cockpit is very limited, especially when climbing.

i received my SEL airman certificate in a piper cherokee. pilots are taught to occasionally dip the nose and also bank left and right as a means by which to scan for traffic while in ascending to altitude.