A helicopter broke apart in midair and crashed upside-down into the Hudson River between Manhattan and the New Jersey waterfront Thursday, killing six people in the latest high-profile aviation disaster in the U.

The fire department said it received a report of a helicopter in the water around 3:17 p.m.

It looked like a regular Thursday afternoon in Lower Manhattan until a terrifying scene unfolded over the Hudson River. Witnesses were stunned when the helicopter crashed into the