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Who was Carla Vallejos Blanco, the Argentine who died when a helicopter fell in New York


Carla Vallejos Blanco, on a trip to the US in 2016.

On Sunday night, a helicopter in which six people were traveling fell into the river in New York in front of Manhattan and five of its occupants passed away being the pilot the only survivor. There was Carla Vallejos Blanco, a 29-year-old Correntina who could not make it out of the impact alive.

Vallejos was in the American city on vacation with her friend, Guadalupe . They had arrived a few days ago and planned to stay a week. His partner was not with her at the time of the accident as they had coordinated to meet at the Rockefeller Center later.

It was not the first time she visited the city: she had also been in 2014 and 2016, but this time she decided get on the photographic journey in the contracted aircraft for a photographic session on the river with a view of the city.

Degree in Advertising in the Universidad de la Cuenca del Plata Vallejos He lived in the nerve center of the Corrientes capital and professed his fanaticism for The Beatles and Queen in social networks.

According to the vice-consul Eduardo Almirantearena, Vallejos Blanco died in the act like another passenger, while the other three died in the hospital.

In dialogue with the local authorities, the pilot blamed a passenger's suitcase as the cause of the accident because a bad location caused him to hit the button on the fuel shut-off valve causing the aircraft to fall.

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  1. She is in my thoughts. Such a tragic ending to such young lives.