First pic of smiling birthday girl, 8, and pilot in NYC helicopter crash taken just mins before whole family was killed

A TRAGIC picture of the smiling birthday girl who died in the Hudson River helicopter crash alongside her family has been revealed.

It is the first image of the eight-year-old sat next to the pilot onboard the doomed aircraft before it plunged into the water just 16 minutes later.

New York Helicopter Tours LLCThe tragic first picture of the birthday girl who died in the Hudson River helicopter crash alongside her family[/caption] New York Helicopter Tours LLCAgustin Escobar...