{"id":168375,"date":"2025-04-12T11:15:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T15:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=168375"},"modified":"2025-04-12T11:15:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T15:15:22","slug":"nyc-helicopter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=168375","title":{"rendered":"NYC Helicopter Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_168376\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168376\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-168376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bell-206-Hudson-Crash-300x169.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bell-206-Hudson-Crash-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bell-206-Hudson-Crash-500x281.webp 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bell-206-Hudson-Crash-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bell-206-Hudson-Crash.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-168376\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Agustin Escobar, a Siemens executive from Barcelona, Spain, his wife Merce Camprubi Montal, and their children, ages 4, 8, and 10, were killed in the crash. Photo from just before the flight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Let&#8217;s talk about the dramatic and tragic helicopter crash in NYC yesterday. A Bell 206 (a venerable, long-serving airframe in both military and civil applications) appears to have broke apart over the Hudson River while flying what seems like a routine tourist flight.<\/p>\n<p>Juan Browne (aka Blancolirio) over on YouTube has a video on it that goes into some detail on available information:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U8Q8XuqlyMQ?si=sVdFj_-ZHwexfFCI\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The pilot has been identified by news sources as Sean Johnson. Media is reporting that Johnson had radioed that he was out of gas, but it&#8217;s clear from the video that he didn&#8217;t simply run out of fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Newsies are also reporting that Johnson was a former Navy SEAL. Our sources in the Navy SEAL community say that he was a rating (gunner&#8217;s mate) in a SEAL supporting command. While not a special operator, our sources indicate that he was very well liked\/regarded by those in the teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s talk about the dramatic and tragic helicopter crash in NYC yesterday. A Bell 206 (a &hellip; <a title=\"NYC Helicopter Crash\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=168375\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NYC Helicopter Crash<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":168376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,119,712,226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-navy","category-seals","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/168376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}