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New York. - A small plane crashed on Monday night in the Hudson River in New York, in the north of the state, and its two crew members were able to swim through the icy waters to the shore and were unharmed, according to authorities and local media.
An instructor pilot and his student had been flying for an hour in a Cessna 172 near Stewart local airport when they alerted air traffic controllers of an engine failure, according to CBS News, which accessed the audio.
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After stating that they would have to land in the Hudson because the engine would not allow them to return to the airport, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) indicated that the small plane crashed in its waters near Newburgh at around 8:00 p.m. "The occupants were able to get out safely on their own and swim to shore," indicated the Fire Department of nearby Middle Hope, one of the relief agencies called to the emergency, in a Facebook message. In that message, they include photographs in which the parts of the device are seen floating in the water next to the ice floes that have covered the river for weeks due to the recent snowfall and the extreme cold that has hit New York and its surroundings. The survivors of the accident were treated on the ground by doctors from Newburgh and transported to a hospital for observation, they added. The state governor, Kathy Hochul, considered the event as "another miracle on the Hudson", referring to the 2009 accident in which a US Airways commercial plane crashed in the same river, near Manhattan, and its 155 passengers survived. "Thank God that both the pilot and passenger of a single-engine plane that made a landing on the ice near Newburgh have been located with only minor injuries. Grateful to our emergency workers for their quick actions," she completed.
