The New York senator has previously sought to tighten regulations on commercial helicopter tours. Just last year, FlyNYON was found primarily responsible for the fatal 2018 crash along with the ...

A helicopter crash in New York City's Hudson River killed six people, including a family of five and the pilot. The cause of the crash is under investigation, but the helicopter reportedly hit the ...

By Corey Kilgannon “Living the dream.” That was how Seankese Johnson, 36, described his new career as a New York City commercial helicopter pilot, flying sightseeing tours around Manhattan.

Around 70,000 commercial helicopter flights take off from the New York-New Jersey metro area a year, and more than half of those crafts are carrying tourists on short joy rides around New York ...

Between 2021 and 2024, over 15,000 cases were recorded where commercial jets and helicopters were dangerously close (less than 1 nautical mile lateral or 400 feet vertical separation). There have ...

This recent tragedy raises safety concerns over the commercial helicopter industry. The U.S. operates the world’s largest fleet of commercial helicopters and is home to the biggest market for ...