A small World War II vintage plane, taking part in celebrations of its 75th anniversary, flew a partial loop while smoke spewed from it and then crashed in the Hudson river between New York and New Je
A small World War II vintage plane, taking part in celebrations of its 75th anniversary, flew a partial loop while smoke spewed from it and then crashed in the Hudson river between New York and New Jersey. Divers recovered a body from its sunken wreckage, the police and witnesses said.
The single-seater plane, a P-47 Thunderbolt, crashed on Friday on a part of the river near where a US Airways commercial jet carrying 155 people splash-landed safely in 2009 in what became known as the “Miracle on the Hudson”.
A witness to the P-47 Thunderbolt crash, Hunter College student Siqi Li, saw smoke spewing from the plane and thought it was doing a trick.
“It made kind of a U-turn, and then there was a stream of smoke coming from it,” Li told the Daily News. “It was tilting down toward the water. I thought they were doing some sort of trick. I didn’t realise it at first, but it was a plane crash.”
Scuba divers recovered a body from the submerged plane about three hours later.
