内容摘要：Austin is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative.

Austin is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative.

Hemendy said the NTSB would not speculate on the cause of the crash so early in the investigation.The main and rear rotors of the helicopter, along with its transmission, roof and tail structures had still not been found as of Friday, she said.

“We are very factual, and we will provide that in due course,” she said.Justin Green, an aviation lawyer and former Marine Corps helicopter pilot, said videos of the crash suggest that a “catastrophic mechanical failure” left the pilot with no chance to save the aircraft. It is possible the helicopter’s main rotors struck the tail boom, breaking it apart and causing the cabin to free fall, Green said.Michael Roth, who owns the helicopter company,

, told The New York Post that he doesn’t know what went wrong with the aircraft.“The only thing I know by watching a video of the helicopter falling down, that the main rotor blades weren’t on the helicopter,” he said, noting that he had never seen such a thing happen in his 30 years in the business, but that, “These are machines, and they break.”

In the last eight years, the New York Helicopter has been through a bankruptcy and faces

over alleged debts. Phones rang unanswered at the company’s offices Friday.The friendly engagement is just one tactic the women-led forest ranger group has been using to safeguard the forest their village relies on from deforestation and poaching. After years of patrols have accompanied a sharp decrease in deforestation, the rangers are now sharing their strategies with other women-led groups striving to protect their forests across Indonesia.

Rangers talk to a villager they met on their way back from a patrol in Damaran Baru, Aceh province, Indonesia, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)Rangers talk to a villager they met on their way back from a patrol in Damaran Baru, Aceh province, Indonesia, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

A vast tropical archipelago stretching across the equator, Indonesia is home to the world’s third-largest rainforest, with a variety of endangered wildlife and plants, including orangutans, elephants and giant forest flowers. Some live nowhere else.Since 1950, more than 285,715 square miles (740,000 square kilometers) of Indonesian rainforest — an area twice the size of Germany — have been logged, burned or degraded for development of palm oil, paper and rubber plantations, nickel mining and other commodities, according to Global Forest Watch. In recent years