{"id":288544,"date":"2026-07-06T21:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/288544\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T21:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:32:17","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-seaplane-rescue-in-east-river-captured-on-nypd-body-cam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/288544\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Seaplane Rescue In East River Captured On Nypd Body Cam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD released body camera footage showing members of its Harbor Unit rescue passengers from a seaplane in the East River.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Fire officials say the plane was carrying eight passengers when it made a <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/news12.com\/2026\/07\/06\/seaplane-crash-lands-in-nycs-east-river\/3FZ1o9yf0DwVUYGdOrEv1U\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rough emergency landing<\/a> in the river near East 23rd Street and the FDR drive just after noon on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The newly released video shows officers rushing to the scene and securing the plane to the NYPD boat.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">An officer is heard asking a passenger how many people are aboard and if anyone is hurt.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The passenger responds, &#8220;Everybody&#8217;s OK.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The video then shows the officers guiding all eight passengers to safety aboard the boat.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities say two people suffered minor injuries and turned down medical attention.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The plane made it upright and was towed back to the dock.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">What caused the emergency landing remains unclear as of Monday night, although the FAA says the landing caused a wing strut to snap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD released body camera footage showing members of its Harbor Unit rescue passengers from a seaplane in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-288544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288544","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=288544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}