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

A small plane apparently low on fuel hit a power line and crashed into a wooded area near a West Virginia, USA, airport killing all six people aboard, authorities said today.

A small plane slammed into a 40-storey apartment building in New York, killing two people in a crash that rained flaming debris onto the pavements and briefly raised fears of another terrorist attack.

A man’s leg and partial torso fell from a South African jetliner onto a suburban New York home yesterday as the aircraft prepared to land at John F. Kennedy Airport, authorities and the airline said.

Federal security agents ordered the temporary evacuation of part of a terminal at New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport after checkpoint screeners failed to properly search travellers, officials said.