So far at least two people have been confirmed dead. In midafternoon, the authorities said they had not recovered any survivors.
“This has changed from a rescue to a recovery mission,” Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said at a 3 p.m. news conference.
Witnesses said the airplane, a single-engine Piper PA-32R-300 that had taken off from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey and was flying south along the river, appeared to lose control as it banked steeply to the left and struck the Liberty Harbor Sightseeing Tours helicopter not far off the shoreline in Hoboken, N.J.
Here is the full story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/continuous/09crash.html?ref=nyregion
Here are some more photos of the recovery down by Sinatra Park:
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