Merce Camprubi Montal’s brother, the young wife and mother who died in the New York city helicopter accident this week along with four other family members and the pilot, threw Flores into the Hudson River covered in fog on Saturday to honor the victims.
Shortly after the flowers were thrown near the accident site, Joan Camprubi and Mayor Eric Adams talked to the press.
“They left together. They left without suffering,” said Camprubi.
“We regret the life of Agustín, Merce and his three beautiful children, Victor, Mercedes and Agustín. Our hearts are broken,” Adams added.
“You have 8.5 million New Yorkers who mean family members and the widest Spanish community that we are here with you, and this symbolic gesture is our way of knowing and recognizing that our words cannot bring back their relatives, but it is our way of saying as New Yorkers, we join this family during this moment of pain, and your pain is our pain,” Adams said.
Now the members of the victims’ family ask for privacy while they continue to cry their loved ones.
“We want to move the bodies as soon as possible, at home, at home, with the whole family, to rest in peace together in our place,” said Camprubi.
“But we also want to thank all the institutional support we received, from Spain, from also Catalonia, from us, New York, New Jersey. They have all been supporting us, and especially Siemens as a company, where Merce and Agustín were working,” he continued. La aeronave condenada, un Bell 206, estalló sobre la tarde de Hudson River y el agua a continuación con un ruidoso aeronaves de un ruidoso boom de un ruishonte de un río y un ruidoso a los pilones de un río y un río de un río de un río de un río a continuación con un ruidoso aeronaves de un ruidoso boom de un ruishonte de un río de un río de un río de un río. On board during a tour of Manhattan that was destined to celebrate one of the birthdays of family members.
Agustín Escobar and Merce Camprubi Montal, a married couple from Spain, were identified as two of the adult victims. The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that the couple and their three children died in the helicopter accident.
A senior New York city official told NBC New York that the third adult victim was the pilot, Sean Johnson. Johnson was 36 years old, according to the office of the mayor of Jersey City.
The officials who have been working to recover the helicopter pieces and other debris of the Hudson said the plane was operated by the Tour New York Helicopters company.
The National Transportation Security Board is leading the investigation. The cause of the accident is still clear.
NBC Aviation analyst Jeff Guzzetti said in the “Today” program of NBC on Friday that the weather does not seem to be a factor, although there were some bursts and wind in the area. He pointed out that they are looking for possible hardware problems that could have happened.
