Divers pulled a helicopter and four more bodies out of New York’s murky Hudson River in their search for victims, wreckage and explanations from the mid-air collision of a sightseeing helicopter and a light aircraft that killed nine people.

DIVERS recovered a piece of a submerged helicopter and a fifth body yesterday as investigators searched the Hudson River for wreckage from the helicopter and a small plane that collided in midair, killing nine people.

Divers were today searching for clues to a mid-air crash between a light aircraft and a sightseeing helicopter carrying tourists over New York’s Hudson River in which nine people died.

Two bodies have been recovered so far after a small plane collided with a tour helicopter over the Hudson River near Manhattan today.

A Dublin tour operator says he is considering pulling out of bringing visitors to Derry because of repeated attacks on his coaches.