Deaths feared in midair crash near New York

There were reports a Liberty Helicopter tour chopper carrying as many as six people and a small fixed wing aircraft collided about noon, with chopper debris plummeting into the river and parts of the airplane crashing across the river in the US state of New Jersey near an old Erie Lackawanna railroad terminal.

There was an unconfirmed report of just one survivor. It remains unknown how many people were aboard the small plane.

A police spokeswoman confirmed an aircraft crash occurred off the West Village/West Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. Further details were not immediately available.