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Plane Crashed in Hudson River, Coast Guard Says Pilot’s Body Recovered After Plane Crash in Hudson River, Officials Say
(about 2 hours later)
A plane was in the Hudson River on Friday, and emergency crews were responding to an area off West 79th Street in Manhattan, officials said. The body of a pilot was recovered after a World War II vintage plane crashed into the Hudson River on Friday night, the authorities said.
The Coast Guard was sending vessels, said a spokesman, Petty Officer Frank Iannazzo-Simmons. The plane, a P-47 Thunderbolt, had departed from Suffolk County on Long Island and crashed around 7:30 p.m. in an area off West 79th Street in Manhattan, the authorities said.
He said officials believed there was only one person aboard the plane. Police Department divers entered the water at 7:54 p.m., and the Coast Guard had four vessels at the scene. A spokesman for the New York Police Department said shortly before 11 p.m. that police divers had recovered the body.
The New York Fire Department said that it had sent marine units, but that it appeared the episode was unfolding closer to the New Jersey side of the river. A United States Coast Guard spokesman, Petty Officer Frank Iannazzo-Simmons, said officials confirmed with the Federal Aviation Administration that only one person was aboard the plane.
Frank Pijuan, 53, who was walking parallel to the river on the Manhattan side with a friend, said that he had seen a plane approaching from the West Side of Manhattan and that it was flying low. Frank Pijuan, 53, who was walking parallel to the river on the Manhattan side, said he had seen a low-flying plane approaching from the West Side of Manhattan.
He said he thought that the plane, which he described as old and small, was doing acrobatic stunts. “Then it disappeared,” he said. He said he thought the plane, which he described as old and small, was doing acrobatic stunts. “Then it disappeared,” he said.
Kate Harris of Manhattan said she was jogging near 79th Street along the river and saw numerous fire trucks, ambulances and police officers at the site. Emergency crews were putting on diving gear and helicopters were over the site. She said it was a “very intense scene, but they seemed to have it under control.” Kate Harris of Manhattan, an employee of The New York Times, said she was jogging near 79th Street along the river and saw fire trucks, ambulances and police officers at the site. Emergency crews were putting on diving gear, and helicopters were overhead. She said it was a “very intense scene, but they seemed to have it under control.”
The Army Corps of Engineers was sending a drift-collection vessel, the Hayward, which has a heavy-duty crane, to work with Police Department divers to retrieve the wreckage, said Ken Wells, a corps spokesman for the New York district.
He said the recovery effort would take place during slack tide, between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. He was unsure where the wreckage would be taken.