Reports: The family on the birthday flight was killed in the NYC disaster.

Sadly, they didn’t make it. “I have never in my life seen anything like that.” The aircraft overturned in the water close to Spring Street and the West Side Highway in Manhattan,

According to footage from the horrific disaster. Witnesses said that before the aircraft crashed into the river, the rotor blades and tail seemed to separate in midair.

A witness claimed to have heard the helicopter “splitting in two” and making a sound “like a sonic boom.” The impact “sounded like thunder,” according to another observer,

Who also remembered seeing “black particles flying” in the air. Breaking: According to the New York Post, Agustin Escobar, the president and chief executive officer of Siemens in Spain, his wife,

And their three children were among the people killed when the helicopter crashed into the Hudson River in New York City on Thursday.