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On the broadcast tonight, moment of impact. Exclusive and dramatic new images that may help explain that deadly midair collision above the Hudson River. Nightly News begins now. From NBC News world headquarters in New York, this is NBC Nightly News with Brain Williams. Good evening. I’m Anne Curry in for Brian Williams. And tonight a new video obtained exclusively by NBC News may help investigators explain last weekend’s tragic midair collision over New York’s Hudson River. All nine people aboard the plane and the sightseeing helicopter died in an accident, ex-experts said, did not need to happen.

 

Taken by a tourist practicing with a new camera, the video clearly shows the moment of impact. A warning now this video is hard to watch. NBC’s Tom Costello now joins us with more on this. Tom? Anne? Good evening. This is the kind of video investigators have been hoping for. It shows or appears to show the crash as it happened last Saturday in the skies over New York’s Hudson River. And again a warning! It is disturbing to watch.

 

The video was shot by an Italian tourist who was on a boat on the Hudson River. While experimenting with his new camera, he zooms in on a helicopter flying over the river just as a small plane comes up from behind. The plane seems to almost explode on impact with pieces raining down on the river. It’s the kind of video investigators from the NTSB have asked the public for. “If they have any that might have captured the aircraft, the sequence or the collision, if that could be provided, that would be very helpful.”

 

An early theory is that the chopper was in the plane’s blind spot below its wings. Now slow down frame by frame, the amateur seemed to show the single engine piper turning and climbing, then clipping the helicopter’s rotor blades. Immediately, the plane’s right wing is sheered off. But plane flips over as both the plane and the chopper nosedive into the river below.

 

The video also captures the aftermath as boats race to the area where both went down only to find a few pieces of debris floating on the water. Now investigators will closely examine this new tape to determine exactly how the plane and helicopter crashed. Their altitude and position relation to each other. And how on a beautiful blue sky day with thousands of people watching, 2 experience the pilots could have had a fatal encounter. This incident has raised concerns about the safety of the Hudson River air corridor, a 3-mile stretch of aerospace in which pilots fly without air traffic control if they’re under 1100 feet. The NTSB and the FAA have both said they intend to look at whether more restrictions are necessary. Anne?

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