‘Everything Is on the Table’ in NYC Helicopter Probe, NTSB Says

The National Transportation Safety Board said it isn’t ruling anything out as it probes the deadly crash of a New York City tourist helicopter.

“Everything is on the table,” NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said Friday during a media briefing on the accident, in which a sightseeing helicopter plunged into the Hudson River.

The aircraft was carrying a senior executive at Siemens AG, as well as his wife and three children. All six people aboard the helicopter, including the pilot, were killed.

Emergency divers respond to the scene where a helicopter crashed into the Hudson River

Photographer: David Dee Delgado/Bloomberg

The crash, involving a Bell 206 L-4 helicopter operated by tour company New York Helicopter, is ...