Aircraft crash in New York

9 people, 5 people including Italian tourists origin, died in the collision between the helicopters and small planes at the top of the City of New York, United States. After the crash, helicopters and planes that go to the free Hudson River.

Said New York Mayor, Michael Bloomberg be like Reuters, Sunday (9/8/2009).

He explains there are 5 people and an Italian tourist in the pilot in the helicopter tour. While 3 people are in the plane including the pilot and a child. 2 corpse is found, but there is no hope to find the victim survived.

"This has changed from a rescue mission to a search mission (relic). This does not culminate with the good news," said Bloomberg.

Search and rescue mission conducted in the vicinity of West 14th Street in Lower Manhattan shortly after the collision that occurred on Saturday (8/8/2009) at 16:00 pm local time. Divers from the police began to search for victims and fuselage aircraft and helicopters. The weather was reported in the search bright and cool.

Bloomberg said the type of Piper Saratoga aircraft was hit to the back of the helicopter, which directly destroy and throw both of them. Police have found a snippet of dead in the river with the turbid water. Searching dead bodies and scrap aircraft will continue in the next few days.

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