A helicopter in New York has operated the sky around New York City features for several decades. But the company faced some difficulties before one of the helicopters that enjoy watching the city’s landmarksHe decreased to the Hudson Riverthis week,All six people were killedon-board.

There wasClose call in 2013When another helicopter suddenly lost strength in the air and the pilot directed it to a safe landing on the Opons in Hudson.

In the past eight years, the company has passed by bankruptcy and faces continuous claims for alleged debts.

In January, a lawsuit was filed against a company more than $ 1.4 million by a company that stopped paying a rental contract for a helicopter.

Cash lenderProsecuting in FebruaryHe said that the company has prevented payments for a week -old loan and acquired more than $ 83,000. A helicopter in New York did not provide a response in both cases.

The phones were unanswered in the company’s offices on Friday. A message was left to get a comment at the owner’s house, Michael Roth, where he told someone who answered the phone on Thursday night that the Associated Press was not hanging. He wasHe told the New York PostHe was confusing and destroying the accident.

“This is terrible,” the newspaper quoted Ruth as saying. “But you should remember something: these are machines, and they are broken.”

Roth was founded, which was also known as names, including New York Helicopter Charter Inc. And New York Helicopter Tours LLC, a view of tourists as a view of birds of freedom, Central Park and Manhattan Skyline. One of the few companies has a license that allows it to fly near New York City’s main landmarks, and it also offers shuttle to airports and air rented flights to executives and others.

The airspace around Manhattan is busy, difficult and sometimes fatal.It has perished more than three scales of peopleIn other helicopter tour and holidays in New York City in the last century. Just weeks ago, aSettlement of 90 million dollarsAn illegal lawsuit submitted by relatives of one of five passengers who were killed in the crash of the city’s 2018 landmarks run by a different company.

Mayor Eric Adams noticed during TV interviews on Friday that tens of thousands of trips a year operate safely from the lower Helpport in Manhattan, where a Thursday tour started. When asked whether he had any specific concerns about the New York helicopter, he said only that the investigators were looking for what happened.

The Democratic Mayor said Fox 5/WNYW-TV will not seek to stop such flights: “Air travel is crucial to this city.”

The New York Helicopter website claims to be “a pioneering safety record in the industry”, but it was not completely without strikes. theThe National Transportation Council attributed the power outages for the year 2013Partially to the “incorrect maintenance decision” about the problem of oil pressure.

Two years later, a helicopter in New YorkThe craft went to spinWhile hovering lower than a falling bird, it falls strongly but safely with the pilot on board. At that time, NTSB blames an unknown person drawing on a bad part – he was marked in this way – on a helicopter that the New York helicopter recently rented from a person who just bought. The new owner advised that the part had reached the new paint.

A New York helicopter plane faced a financial problem after New York CityHalf tourist helicopter movement in 2017According to the stadiums in the company’s bankruptcy case 2019.

As flights decreased, the landing fees in Manhattan increased, the company witnessed revenue drop from $ 4.5 million in 2017 to $ 3.9 million in 2018, according to bankruptcy papers. A helicopter in New York said it had reduced its employees from 30 employees to 13 employees.

By 2019, it included $ 6 million in assets and $ 1.6 million of obligations, including hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt for declining fees and repair bills.

The business came out of bankruptcy in 2022, but it apparently continued to face the financial opposite winds.

Last June, the companyI filed a lawsuitOn what he described as “unreasonable” conditions for the 2018 loan it obtained from another lender. Al -Mirbah company dropped the case this month. It is not clear from court records whether there is any financial or other settlement.

The messages were sent to the lawyers who represented the company.

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