Tucked away on the west side of the small town of Broad Channel in the middle of Jamiaca Bay is a narrow, dead end, street that goes by the name of West 12th Road. Those of us who live there know that the nice part about living in a small town is that when you are not quite sure what is going on, someone else always does!
[Peter J. Mahon West 12th Road, Broad Channel]
Police and fire department recover a plane from the Atlantic Ocean after crashing off Breezy Point in Queens.Photo: William C Lopez
A single-engine airplane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Breezy Point, Queens, Wednesday night, and cops later recovered a body from the wreckage, sources said.
People who witnessed the plane hitting the water started calling police at about 7:50 p.m., according to law-enforcement sources.
“I saw that crazy angle of lights in the sky,” one witness told The Post.
“Half a second later to a second later, I heard the boom and I was like, ‘Oh, my God, it was a plane crash!’ ”
A police boat located the wreckage and found the plane’s tail, and later found the body, sources said.
A witness who saw the plane descend said it appeared to be speeding as it hurtled toward the water.
“The lights were going at a 40-degree angle super fast beyond what I’ve ever seen,” he said. “I have never seen an airplane going from west to east [in this area].”
“In a heartbeat, what I saw was so outside of what I’m used to seeing. It was going super fast into the abyss. It dispersed in the half sec it took for me to hear the sound, that boom.”
The plane, made by the German manufacturer Flight Design, is registered to James McGee of Rye, NH. McGee had filed a flight plan taking him from Philadelphia to New Hampshire.
It was not clear what caused the crash. But police sources said there had been no mayday call from the cockpit and the FAA had no reports of missing aircraft in the area.
The plane is described as a high-technology, carbon-fiber sports-aviation craft.
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