The chairman and CEO of Siemens II Spain was Agustín Escobar, who died tragically along with his family when the helicopter they were in crashed into the Hudson River in New York City on Thursday night (local time).

Shortly before the helicopter took off, Escobar was being photographed with his wife Merce Cambrooby-Montal and their three children, aged 4, 5 and 11, unaware that these were the last frames of their lives.

In a second photo, the whole family poses smiling in the Bell 206L-4 LongRanger IV, as the helicopter was type.

The helicopter went down in the Hudson River just 17 minutes after taking off, with no word yet on why this happened.

Video footage of the moment of the crash shows the helicopter falling uncontrollably while apparently losing its tail fin.

 The 71-year-old owner of New York Helicopter, the company that chartered the helicopter to the Escobar family, said in a statement that “the pilot alerted that he wanted to land and that he needed fuel. That should have taken him three minutes but 20 minutes later that never happened,” Michael Roth told the Telegraph.

The family of the Siemens Spain chairman had arrived in New York earlier on Thursday.

Along with the Eskmobar family, the helicopter pilot also died with authorities saying four of the passengers died instantly and two were taken to hospital where they breathed their last.

Escobar had 25 years of professional experience in business in the US, Latin America, Spain and Germany and had taken over as CEO of Siemens Spain in late 2022.

Describing him, a friend told the New York Post that “no matter how difficult things were, he always stayed calm. And he never forgot the most important thing, his family.”