Hudson River helicopter propellor ‘exploded and scattered,’ crash eyewitness says

Hudson river helicopter propellor 'exploded and scattered,' crash eyewitness saysSource: AP

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00:00there was like an explosion on the propeller but there was a little slitter of light so the people

00:11that were next to me we were like was that a lightning we wasn't we weren't sure if it was

00:17the lightning or what but the propeller just exploded and scattered right and then after that

00:24we saw this the plane was just spiraling down like going from left to right like that and we were

00:31like oh my god oh my god and we start screaming because we were like is this really happening we

00:36just couldn't believe it we were like is this for real this can't be for real and then we were crying

00:40we were hugging each other when it hit the water we were like oh my god oh my god and then we were

00:45scrambling we were like what do we do do we call 9-1-1 i mean how can we get these people help

00:54but i know for the first 15 minutes since that plane went down there was nobody in the water

01:08the plane was just there and everybody was just standing still we were crying we were like

01:13oh my god what do we do you know what i mean because do you jump in do you try to save them

01:19because there's more yeah we gotta go back Antarctic

01:32oh my god