The Federal Aviation Administration announced that New York Helicopter Tours, which owned the helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River last week, is shutting down operations.

New York Helicopter Tours, the operator of the chopper that fell into the Hudson River on Thursday, killing a pilot and family of five visiting from Spain, is shutting down operations. The Federal Aviation Administration made that announcement late Sunday,

Federal aviation regulators issued an emergency order Monday grounding the helicopter tour company involved in a deadly New York crash after learning it had fired its operations director minutes after he had agreed to suspend flights during the investigation.