A tourist helicopter crashed in New York's Hudson River off lower Manhattan on Thursday afternoon, killing all six people on board. It was the latest in a series of accidents involving choppers operating around the city in recent years.

A helicopter carrying six people plummeted into the Hudson River, this evening Irish time leaving no survivors. The crash, which occurred near Pier 40 off Lower Manhattan, claimed the lives of a family of five tourists from Spain—two adults and three children—and the pilot.