Seankese Johnson, 36, was killed along with five passengers when the sightseeing helicopter he was flying suddenly crashed into the Hudson River near Jersey City.
Investigators for the National Transportation Safety Board said it would most likely be some time before a cause of the crash that killed six people could be determined.
Dozens have died in accidents since helicopters were allowed in the city in 1949. Residents have complained for nearly as long, but reforms rarely stick.
A man in a car also was injured when the small plane crashed near an interstate overpass a short distance from Boca Raton Airport in Florida, the authorities said.
The helicopter that crashed in the Hudson River, killing six, was operated by a company whose aircraft had suffered two midair breakdowns in the past 12 years.
Authorities say the industry contributes $50 million a year to the city’s tourism economy, but the number of tourist helicopter flights has halved since 2016.
Two American Airlines jets clipped wings on a taxiway, officials said. Representative Grace Meng said that, in 10 years of flying to and from Washington, “This has never happened to me.”
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