Aviation challenges us to prove ourselves each day. By Zac Noble
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VIATION MAINTENANCE HAS BEEN RAISED as a possible contributing factor in an Apr. 10, 2025, air tour helicopter accident in the Hudson River near Jersey City, New Jersey. All six people
onboard perished in the incident, in which the aircraft appar- ently broke apart in midair. The actual cause of the accident
is unknown, as the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has not completed its investigation, and so any focus on maintenance as a causal factor is simply speculation. The helicopter model that crashed