Six people have died in a helicopter crash in New York's Hudson River, AP reports.

The New York City Fire Department said there were six people on board, all of whom died.

There have been numerous air accidents in the area in recent years, including a 2009 collision between a plane and a tourist helicopter over the Hudson River that killed nine people, and a 2018 crash of a charter helicopter offering "open-door" flights that crashed into the East River. This accident had killed five people.