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Two of the five passengers killed when their tour helicopter plunged into the East River Sunday, marking one of the deadliest civilian aviation crashes in New York City history and one of the worst in America in the last few years, are high school friends who were doing sightseeing in the city this past weekend.
Brian McDaniel, a nearly two-year veteran of the Dallas Fire-Rescue Department who worked at Station 36, was visiting his longtime friend Trevor Cadigan, who had been living in New York since October 2017 after taking a job with a business magazine, Cadigan’s father said. The two friends, who went to Texas’ Bishop Lynch High School together and graduated in 2010, were on a sightseeing chopper owned by Liberty Helicopter Tours.
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The helicopter that plunged into the East River, killing all five passengers aboard, may have gone down because of an errant piece of luggage, according to a report.
Pilot Richard Vance, 33, told investigators that one of the passengers’ bags may have inadvertently hit the chopper’s emergency shutoff button, sending the aircraft down, a senior law enforcement official told CNN.
