The bodies of two men were recovered from the skeletal remains of a single-engine plane that police divers and crane operators pulled from the Hudson River on Tuesday afternoon, the authorities said. The recovery capped the major portion of an extensive salvage effort; workers have now found the bodies of all nine victims of the midair collision on Saturday between the plane and a New York sightseeing helicopter. Using a crane affixed to an Army Corps of Engineers vessel, recovery workers used straps, chains and nets to lift the tattered wreckage of the plane from a depth of about 60 feet, said Paul J. Browne, the Police Department's chief spokesman. They worked as the boat drifted in a swift south-moving current. Once up, the silver-colored fuselage was lowered onto the ship's deck, covered with a blue tarp and taken to a nearby pier. The two bodies were delivered to the city medical examiner's office, and the wreckage will be handed over to the National Transportation Safety Board, Browne said. Investigators with safety board are still gathering evidence. Because neither aircraft had a cockpit voice recorder or flight data recorder, the wreckage will be important in determining the cause. Browne said that the airplane wreckage did not include the plane's wings. Before Tuesday evening, the bodies of seven victims of the crash had already been recovered. The two who were still missing were Steven Altman, 60, the plane's pilot, and his brother, Daniel Altman, 49. Meanwhile, the family of Jeremy M. Clarke, 32, the pilot of the helicopter, expressed their thanks to city workers and others in a statement. They said they hoped lessons would be learned and that 'new regulatory provisions with the aviation industry will emerge.' 