Hudson helicopter crash: three adults and three children confirmed dead in New York accident – as it happened

Family of five and pilot were onboard the helicopter when it crashed into the Hudson River

• Six people dead after helicopter crashes in New York's Hudson River

The spot where the helicopter crashed is less than three miles (4.8km) south of where US Airways Capt Chesley Sullenberger expertly landed the passenger plane he was piloting, on the water, with no lives lost, after the engines were put out in a bird strike after take-off from the airport.

The 2009 rare successful emergency landing on water became known as the miracle on the Hudson. But the scene at the Hudson today is grim, as New York fire department divers emerge from the water.