The pilot and passenger who miraculously survived a small plane crash in the icy Hudson River were in “good spirits” and cracked jokes after they swam to shore Monday night.
The pair was found by first responders in Newburgh inside a waterfront warehouse, where they had changed into dry clothes they had found.
“The pilot was making jokes to us about the clothes he was wearing because they had taken clothes from the warehouse that weren’t theirs — obviously to get out of the wet clothes,” Carrie Massari-Carey, Assistant Chief at the Town of Newburgh Emergency Medical Services, told The Post Tuesday.
Read more at https://nypost.com/2026/03/03/us-news/pilot-cracked-jokes-after-hudson-river-plane-crash/
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