A seaplane was left partially submerged in New York City’s East River after a hard landing on Sunday. One of the pilots announced a mayday signal as the Kodiak 100 aircraft bounced off the water and came to a hard stop with Manhattan visible in the distance. Audible gasps ring out in the cabin, as smartphone footage shows panicked passengers in disarray. He is heard telling the passengers that the plane’s pontoon broke. The pontoons are the floats that allow the aircraft to land on water. The Federal Aviation Administration said a wing strut, a rigid structural brace that connects the aircraft’s wing to the main fuselage, snapped. The New York Fire Department said all eight people aboard were safely ejected, while two people with minor injuries refused treatment. Khloe Todd, 16, told the New York Post that she and her family were on the way back from a birthday trip in the Hamptons when the incident happened. “It was a crash, a very bad one,” she said, adding that her grandmother, Ada, was shaken by what happened. “She’s really not feeling well–her ribs, her back, her head. It’s all swollen. It’s all really bad, so we might end up going to the hospital tonight.”
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