Gut-wrenching photos on New York Helicopter Tours website show the bundled up five family members smiling in front of the Bell 206L-4 LongRanger IV helicopter and strapped inside the aircraft.

Agustín Escobar and Mercè Camprubí Montal died with their three children when the helicopter taking them on a sightseeing tour plunged into the river.

An executive of Siemens, a European technology company, his wife and young children were aboard the tourist helicopter that plunged into New York City's Hudson River.