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Nine people feared dead in NY mid-air crash

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Nine people are feared dead after a small plane and a tourist helicopter collided Saturday near New York City and plunged into the Hudson River, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Sunday.

NEW YORK, August 9 (RIA Novosti) - Nine people are feared dead after a small plane and a tourist helicopter collided Saturday near New York City and plunged into the Hudson River, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Sunday.

Bloomberg said there were five Italian tourists and a pilot aboard the helicopter and three people on board the plane, including the pilot and a child. Three bodies have been recovered.

Bloomberg said the search effort had changed from a rescue to a recovery mission and that "there's not going to be a happy ending."

Preliminary reports said the plane ran into the back of the helicopter, Bloomberg said, adding that no official information was yet available.

The plane took off from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey and was heading to Ocean City in the same state, aviation officials said.

 

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