Helicopter in Hudson River Crash Lacked Recorder, NTSB Says
The wreckage of a helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River is extracted from the water in Jersey City on April 10.
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The helicopter that plunged into the Hudson River on Thursday and killed all six people aboard was on its eighth sightseeing trip of the day and lacked a flight data recorder, federal investigators said.
The Bell 206 L-4 helicopter had completed seven flights before it went down shortly after takeoff, the National Transportation Safety Board said Saturday in an investigative update. The aircraft was not equipped with a cockpit voice recorder or flight data recorder, and no onboard video or camera devices have been recovered, it said.