Man's Body Recovered From Plane Crash in Waters Off of Rockaway
A small, single-engine aircraft flying near Rockaway plunged from 1,000 feet into the ocean, and a man’s body has been recovered from the wreck, reports the New York Daily News.
Several witnesses reported seeing the plane go down just before 8 p.m. Wednesday. The New York Police Department and New York City Fire Department have been searching the waters in the hours since. The unidentified man’s body was pulled from the water around 11 p.m.
“The New York Police Department reported to the FAA that they found several aircraft parts off the shore of Breezy Point, Queens, NY tonight at approximately 8:30 pm,” the agency said in a statment. “The FAA has no reports of any missing aircraft in the area. The FAA will investigate.”
Officials are reportedly “sending someone” to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the plane’s destination, in the hopes of identifying the deceased.
The Daily News reports that the control tower at JFK had received neither a distress call nor any reports of a missing aircraft. The report indicates the plane’s tail number corresponds to a two-seat CTLS that departed from Philadelphia earlier Wednesday, and is registered to a James McGee, of Rye, New Hampshire.
