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Thunderbolt Crash Into Hudson River (Update)

May 28, 2016 Thunderbolt Crash Into Hudson River (Update)
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FighterSweep Fans, when things like this happen, we always hope and pray for a positive outcome. Unfortunately, yesterday’s crash of a P-47 Thunderbolt into the Hudson River did not turn out as we’d hoped. The pilot of the aircraft, Mr. Bill Gordon, died in the incident.

The pilot of a World War II plane was killed after his aircraft crashed into the Hudson River Friday, officials and witnesses said.

The single-seater P-47 Thunderbolt fighter began smoking and listing to one side as it buzzed over the water and went down just south of the Edgewater Marina in Edgewater, N.J., around 7:30 p.m., witnesses said.

“It made kind of a U-turn and then there was a stream of smoke coming from it,” said Siqi Li, 22, a Hunter College student from Manhattan. “It was tilting down toward the water I thought they were doing some sort of trick. I didn’t realize it at first but it was a plane crash.”

The man at the controls of the doomed single engine plane was 56-year-old Bill Gordon, according to the NYPD.

Thunderbolt Crash Into Hudson River (Update)

This photograph of the Republic P-47D Thunderbolt “Jacky’s Revenge” was taken shortly after the aircraft sank to the bottom of the Hudson River. (Photo courtesy of NY Daily News)

The experienced pilot, originally from upstate Copake, in Columbia County, had spent years as the Chief Pilot of the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome and had recently flown in a show near his new home in Key West, Florida.

Gordon was pulled from the plane around three hours later, police sources said.

“When we found him the canopy was partially opened, it was pulled back,” a police source said. “It look like he tried to escape. We reached in, found the foot and pulled him out.”

The vintage aircraft was with two other planes that departed the American Airpower Museum at Republic Airport in Farmingdale, L.I., on a photo flight, according to museum spokesman Gary Lewi.

The original article in its entirety can be read right here.
(Featured Photo courtesy of Facebook)

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