Officials
remove a plane out of the Hudson River a day after it crashed,
Saturday, May 28, 2016, in North Bergen, N.J. The World War II vintage
P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft crashed into the river Friday, May 27. (AP
Photo/Julio Cortez)
The single-seat P-47 crashed 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.
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The plane was loaded on to a barge Saturday and taken to a heliport
in lower Manhattan, where investigators from the Federal Aviation
Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board can examine
it as part of their investigation.
Officials
remove a plane out of the Hudson River a day after it crashed,
Saturday, May 28, 2016, in North Bergen, N.J. The World War II vintage
P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft crashed into the river Friday, May 27, 2016,
killing its pilot. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
A witness to the crash, Hunter College student Siqi Li, saw smoke spewing from the plane and thought it was doing a trick.
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“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 realize
it at first, but it was a plane crash.”
Officials
remove a plane out of the Hudson River a day after it crashed,
Saturday, May 28, 2016, in North Bergen, N.J. The World War II vintage
P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft crashed into the river Friday, May 27 killing
its pilot. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
The aircraft, which went down around 7:30 p.m., was among three
planes that had departed from Republic Airport in Farmingdale, on Long
Island, just east of New York City. The other two aircraft returned to
the airport and landed safely.
Museum spokesman Gary Lewi said the plane was kept at the museum and
was taking part in an air show at nearby Jones Beach this weekend.
The P47-Thunderbolts were the heaviest single-engine fighter planes
used by Allied forces in World War II. They first went into service in
1942, with the 56th Fighter Group based on Long Island.
Officials
place a plane on the Wall St. Heliport pier after removing it from the
Hudson River a day after it crashed,, Saturday, May 28, 2016, in New
York. The World War II vintage P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft crashed into
the river Friday, May 27. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Pilots flew over the museum in an aerial salute known as a “missing
man formation” Saturday afternoon in a tribute honoring Gordon.
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Clyman told fellow mourners that Gordon had always been fascinated by
World War II fighter planes “and he quickly demonstrated the skill to
master these demanding aircraft.”
On Friday, Clyman said, “what fate decided was that he would not exit
the fighter safely. And that loss is deeply felt beyond words.”
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