All five passengers have been killed after a helicopter crashed into New York City's East River.

Crews lifted the wreckage of a helicopter from the murky Hudson River today as police using sonar located the submerged small plane that had collided with it.

Divers recovered a piece of a submerged helicopter and a fourth body today as investigators searched New York's Hudson River for wreckage from the helicopter and a small plane that collided in midair, killing nine people.