The victims included passengers Agustin Escobar, 49, his wife, Mercè Camprubí Montal, 39, and their three children, Victor, 4, Mercedes, 8, and Agustin, 10. The pilot was Seankese Johnson, 36, a U.S.

At least 38 people have died in helicopter crashes in New York City since 1977, when an incident on a skyscraper landing pad led the city to start putting restrictions on where choppers could land.

The company that operated the helicopter that crashed in the Hudson River on Thursday, killing all six people aboard, will be shutting down “immediately,” The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)