{"id":14741,"date":"2025-04-12T08:05:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T08:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=14741"},"modified":"2025-04-12T08:05:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T08:05:48","slug":"the-helicopter-company-in-the-deadly-nyc-crash-that-killed-an-executive-and-his-whole-family-recently-emerged-from-bankruptcy-and-already-faces-a-1-4-million-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=14741","title":{"rendered":"The helicopter company in the deadly NYC crash that killed an executive and his whole family recently emerged from bankruptcy and already faces a $1.4 million lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New York Helicopter has plied the skies around New York City landmarks for decades. But the company had some difficulties before one of its sightseeing choppers&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/new-york-helicopter-crash-e0368ea529659ee1513d92dcbf05a28d\">plummeted into the Hudson River<\/a>&nbsp;this week,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/new-york-city-helicopter-crash-11e021a256d90a31103ea3ec66616075\">killing all six people<\/a>&nbsp;aboard.<\/p>\n<p>There was a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/86ca53109e7f42ecb4e40cb3c52a516c\">close call in 2013<\/a>, when another helicopter suddenly lost power in midair and the pilot maneuvered it to a safe landing on pontoons in the Hudson.<\/p>\n<p>And in the last eight years, the company has been through a bankruptcy and faces ongoing lawsuits over alleged debts.<\/p>\n<p>This January, it was sued for over $1.4 million by a company that it had stopped paying a lease on for a chopper.<\/p>\n<p>A cash-advance lender&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/iapps.courts.state.ny.us\/nyscef\/ViewDocument?docIndex=tmC1ejMCb1Aq6JNT12WmAw==\">sued in February<\/a>, saying the company had blocked repayments on a weeks-old loan and owed over $83,000. New York Helicopter hasn\u2019t yet filed a response in either case.<\/p>\n<p>Phones rang unanswered at the company&#8217;s offices Friday. A message seeking comment was left at owner Michael Roth&#8217;s home, where someone who answered the phone Thursday night told The Associated Press that Roth wasn&#8217;t commenting. He had&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/04\/10\/us-news\/owner-of-helicopter-that-plummeted-into-nycs-hudson-river-devasted-after-6-killed\/\">told the New York Post<\/a>&nbsp;he was bewildered and devastated by the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is horrific,\u201d the newspaper quoted Roth as saying. \u201cBut you gotta remember something: These are machines, and they break.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Founded in the 1990s, Roth&#8217;s business, which also has been known by names including New York Helicopter Charter Inc. and New York Helicopter Tours LLC, offers tourists a bird&#8217;s-eye view of the Statue of Liberty, Central Park and the Manhattan skyline. One of few firms with a license allowing it to fly close to major New York City landmarks, it also offers shuttles to airports and charter flights for executives and others.<\/p>\n<p>The airspace around Manhattan is busy, tricky and sometimes deadly.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ap.org\/detail\/pronto\/6335bf1d0ce781e6e2c4be1a3a25751f\">More more than three dozen people have perished<\/a>&nbsp;in tour and other helicopter crashes in New York City in the last half-century. Just weeks ago, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nyc-sightseeing-helicopter-crash-doors-off-2018-8bbe3a05e81ff20bd079e77c820db13e\">$90 million settlement<\/a>&nbsp;ended a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by relatives of one of five passengers killed in a 2018 sightseeing-helicopter crash operated by a different company.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Eric Adams noted during TV interviews Friday that tens of thousands of flights a year operate safely from the lower Manhattan heliport where Thursday&#8217;s tour took off. Asked whether he had any specific concerns about New York Helicopter, he said only that investigators were looking into what happened.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic mayor told <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/fox\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fox<\/a> 5\/WNYW-TV he wouldn&#8217;t seek to stop such flights: \u201cAir travel is crucial to this city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>New York Helicopter&#8217;s website claims an \u201cindustry-leading safety record,\u201d but it hasn&#8217;t been entirely without dings. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntsb.gov\/Pages\/ResultsV2.aspx?queryId=29d58ae2-746e-4185-ad5d-6e39b24a51dc\">National Transportation Safety Board attributed the 2013 power failure<\/a>&nbsp;partly to an \u201cimproper maintenance decision&#8221; about an oil pressure issue.<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, a New York Helicopter&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntsb.gov\/Pages\/ResultsV2.aspx?queryId=b41ace29-62aa-4a4d-82f0-683a72d6d4a4\">craft went into a spin<\/a>&nbsp;while hovering low off a helipad, landing hard but safely with just the pilot aboard. That time, the NTSB blamed an unknown person who had painted over a bad part \u2014 marked as such \u2014 on a chopper that New York Helicopter had recently leased from someone who had just bought it. The new owner advised that the part had arrived with fresh paint.<\/p>\n<p>New York Helicopter hit financial trouble after New York City&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/01\/nyregion\/deal-restricts-tourist-helicopter-flights-over-new-york.html\">halved tour helicopter traffic in 2017<\/a>, according to filings in the company&#8217;s 2019 bankruptcy case.<\/p>\n<p>As flights were cut down but Manhattan landing fees rose, the company saw revenue fall from $4.5 million in 2017 to $3.9 million in 2018, according to its bankruptcy papers. New York Helicopter said it slashed its staff from 30 employees to 13.<\/p>\n<p>By 2019, it listed $6 million in assets and $1.6 million in liabilities, including hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt for landing fees and repair bills.<\/p>\n<p>The business emerged from bankruptcy in 2022 but apparently continued to face financial headwinds.<\/p>\n<p>Last June, the company&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/iapps.courts.state.ny.us\/nyscef\/ViewDocument?docIndex=cl3soCouwNpJchdwhb3\/GQ==\">filed a lawsuit<\/a>&nbsp;over what it called the \u201cunconscionable\u201d terms of a 2018 loan it got from another cash-advance lender. The helicopter company dropped the case this month. It is unclear from court records whether there was any financial or other settlement.<\/p>\n<p>Messages were sent to attorneys who have represented the company.<\/p>\n<p>This story was originally featured on <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2025\/04\/11\/new-york-helicopter-company-hudson-river-siemens-executive-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fortune.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Helicopter has plied the skies around New York City landmarks for decades. But the company had some difficulties before one of its sightseeing choppers&nbsp;plummeted into the Hudson River&nbsp;this week,&nbsp;killing all six people&nbsp;aboard. 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