{"id":289951,"date":"2026-07-08T03:33:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T03:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/289951\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T03:33:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T03:33:32","slug":"8-rescued-after-seaplane-makes-hard-landing-in-new-yorks-east-river-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/289951\/","title":{"rendered":"8 rescued after seaplane makes &#8216;hard landing&#8217; in New York&#8217;s East River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (TNND)  \u2014 Eight people were safely rescued Sunday after a seaplane was forced to make an emergency landing on New York&#8217;s East River, according to the New York City Fire Department (FDNY).<\/p>\n<p>FDNY officials told multiple outlets that at least two people suffered minor injuries and were treated by emergency personnel. The plane was later towed back to the dock.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/newsroom\/statements\/accident_incidents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Federal Aviation Administration<\/a> (FAA) said the pilot of a Kodiak 100 declared an emergency before making a hard landing near Brooklyn around noon, causing one of the aircraft&#8217;s wing struts to snap.<\/p>\n<p>An air traffic control recording released by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ATC.com<\/a> captured the pilot issuing a Mayday distress call before landing on the river.<\/p>\n<p>Video of the incident showed the plane floating upright in the water with its left wing partially submerged.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The FAA is investigating the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (TNND) \u2014 Eight people were safely rescued Sunday after a seaplane was forced to make an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-289951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289951","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=289951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}