A small plane safely crash-landed in the Hudson River near Newburgh, New York, on Monday evening. Both the pilot and the passenger safely escaped the wreckage and swam to shore. They are being treated in the hospital for minor injuries. The single-engine Cessna 172 had taken off from Long Island MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma, New York. Town of Newburgh Emergency Medical Services were dispatched to the scene, and shared images on their Facebook page. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul commended the first responders at the scene. “Another miracle on the Hudson,” she said, referencing the 2009 commercial crash landing in which a US Airways jet struck a flock of birds and lost power in both engines shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport. Pilots Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and Jeffrey Skiles managed to land the plane on the water, and all 155 passengers survived. The governor continued, “Thank God both the pilot and passenger of a single-engine plane that performed an ice landing near Newburgh have been located with only minor injuries.” The cause of the crash, which is being investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration, has not yet been determined.
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