Seaplane ditches in New York Citys East River: all eight rescued
A seaplane carrying eight people ditched into New York City’s East River on Sunday afternoon, prompting a multi-agency rescue operation that pulled everyone to safety just minutes after the pilot declared mayday. The single-engine Kodiak 100, operated by a private charter company, came down off the Upper East Side shortly after 2 p.m. local time, sending a plume of spray across the waterway and sending passengers scrambling onto the wings as first responders from the U.S. Coast Guard and the New York Police Department converged on scene. All eight people on board were rescued without serious injury, authorities confirmed in the hours after the incident .
The pilot’s distress call was captured on video shot from aboard the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, a historic tall ship that had itself been ordered out of the Sail4th 250 parade route earlier in the day. Footage released by Reuters shows the seaplane banking sharply before touching down in a violent splash, with passengers shouting in Greek and English as the aircraft bobbed in the river . The U.S. Coast Guard said its Station New York and Sector New York units, working with NYPD Harbor Units, recovered the eight people within minutes and transferred them to local hospitals for precautionary checks. The aircraft remained partially submerged, its tail fin jutting above the waterline, as salvage teams prepared to tow it to a nearby marina.
The emergency unfolded against the backdrop of New York Harbor’s largest maritime spectacle in decades. More than 40 tall ships from 20 countries had gathered for the Sail4th 250 parade, a centerpiece of the U.S. Semiquincentennial celebrations. Among the vessels was the Portuguese Navy training ship NRP Sagres, which had already taken part in the International Naval Review on Saturday, and the Danish frigate Iver Huitfeldt, both of which joined the Turkish frigate TCG Oruçreis in anchoring on the Hudson River . The TCG Oruçreis, a Barbaros-class frigate commissioned in 1997, is scheduled to depart for Dublin on Wednesday after completing a series of joint exercises with U.S. Navy units during FLEETEX-250, a multinational drill marking the anniversary .
Earlier on Saturday, the U.S. Coast Guard had intervened to remove the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater from the parade after its crew refused to take down banners reading “Save the Clean Water Act” and “Indigenous Rights, Racial Justice, Climate Solutions.” The Coast Guard said the messages violated a prior agreement to keep the event non-political, while the ship’s advocacy director, Jen Benson, countered that clean-water advocacy was not a political statement. “We don’t feel like advocating for clean water is a politically charged message,” Benson told Reuters. “People on all sides of the aisle, and no sides at all, have been fighting in the United States for clean water in different ways” .
Elsewhere, Turkey’s decision to bar an American LGBTQ+ cruise ship from docking at two ports has cast a shadow over the global celebrations. The vessel, operated by Atlantis Events, was rerouted to Cairo and Crete after Turkish authorities cited “family values” and “moral norms,” a move condemned by the cruise line’s chief executive as unprecedented in its 36-year history .
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