HUDSON COUNTY — According to the Associated Press, “A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of five Italian citizens who were among nine people killed in an August collision of a tourist helicopter and a small airplane over the Hudson River. Attorneys for the five filed suit in U.S. District Court in Newark Dec. 4 against Liberty Helicopters Inc. and the Meridian Consulting I Corporation Inc., both of Linden. The suit also names the estate of Steven Altman, the pilot of the Piper that collided with the helicopter, and the aircraft’s owner, LCA Partnership of Pennsylvania.”
The crash occurred near Hoboken this past summer, prompting numerous press conferences on the Hoboken waterfront. All of the passengers in both the helicopter and the plane were killed.