{"id":287505,"date":"2026-07-05T20:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/287505\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T20:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:01:10","slug":"eight-rescued-from-seaplane-that-landed-in-manhattans-east-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/287505\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight rescued from seaplane that landed in Manhattan&#8217;s East River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a hard landing, a plane touches down with excessive vertical speed or force, exceeding the manufacturer limit. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The FAA said on social media that air traffic control &#8220;was not providing services to the aircraft&#8221; at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The New York Times reported that the plane was coming from the Hamptons &#8211; a seaside retreat for affluent New Yorkers &#8211; and was heading to a seaplane base when it struck a wave while landing, leading to it partially capsizing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another seaplane was damaged in the East River three weeks ago. That aircraft, a small two-seater,  was struck by a large wave as it tried to take off from the river on 13 June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During that earlier incident, the FDNY took a pilot and one passenger on to a boat after the plane went down near Queens, CBS News reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a hard landing, a plane touches down with excessive vertical speed or force, exceeding the manufacturer limit.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-287505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}