Rescue workers resume search for NY crash victims

Rescue workers including divers from the New York Police Department resumed their search for bodies after a sightseeing helicopter and a small plane collided.

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Sunday, 09.08.2009.

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Rescue workers including divers from the New York Police Department resumed their search for bodies after a sightseeing helicopter and a small plane collided. The two aircrafts collided on Saturday, both plunging into the Hudson River. Rescue workers resume search for NY crash victims Two bodies were found in the wreckage of what may be the helicopter, New York Mayor Micheal Bloomberg said in a televised news conference yesterday. It’s unlikely there were any survivors among the six aboard the helicopter or the three on the plane headed for the New Jersey shore, he said. A third body believed to be that of a plane passenger was recovered before the search was suspended last night, Lieutenant John Grimpel of the New York Police Department said. The search resumed at 7 a.m. local time this morning. “This is not going to be a happy ending,” Bloomberg said. The National Transportation Safety Board will lead the investigation. The helicopter was carrying a pilot and five Italian tourists, while the plane that left Teterboro Airport in New Jersey had a pilot, identified by the New York Times as Steven Altman, 60, of Ambler, Pennsylvania. His brother, Daniel Altman, and a teenage boy were also on the plane, the newspaper said. The accident happened around noon local time yesterday, on a bright, sunny day with temperatures in the mid-70s that attracted joggers and bicyclists to the shores of the Hudson. Witnesses on both the New York and New Jersey sides of the river saw some of the accident as it unfolded.

Rescue workers resume search for NY crash victims

Two bodies were found in the wreckage of what may be the helicopter, New York Mayor Micheal Bloomberg said in a televised news conference yesterday. It’s unlikely there were any survivors among the six aboard the helicopter or the three on the plane headed for the New Jersey shore, he said.

A third body believed to be that of a plane passenger was recovered before the search was suspended last night, Lieutenant John Grimpel of the New York Police Department said. The search resumed at 7 a.m. local time this morning.

“This is not going to be a happy ending,” Bloomberg said. The National Transportation Safety Board will lead the investigation.

The helicopter was carrying a pilot and five Italian tourists, while the plane that left Teterboro Airport in New Jersey had a pilot, identified by the New York Times as Steven Altman, 60, of Ambler, Pennsylvania. His brother, Daniel Altman, and a teenage boy were also on the plane, the newspaper said.

The accident happened around noon local time yesterday, on a bright, sunny day with temperatures in the mid-70s that attracted joggers and bicyclists to the shores of the Hudson. Witnesses on both the New York and New Jersey sides of the river saw some of the accident as it unfolded.

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