Two people were rescued Sunday when their single-engine plane crashed into the Hudson River off Yonkers, New York, according to reports.
A couple escaped catastrophe Sunday when heroic off-duty cops pulled them out of the freezing Hudson River after their single-engine plane crashed, authorities and witnesses said.
The plane, carrying a 43-year-old man and a 39-year-old woman, both of New Jersey, on a sightseeing trip, came down in the river near the JFK Marina at 5:22 p.m., Yonkers Police Chief Frank Intervallo said, according to USA Today.
The couple were plucked from the waters within 30 minutes of the crash and taken to Jacobi Medical Center. They were treated for hypothermia and were listed in stable condition at Jacobi, Lt. Toni Scherer of Empress Ambulance Service said. The names of the two were not immediately released.
Several Yonkers police officers and a retired city detective took a boat from the Hudson River Pilot House to save the couple, who had gotten out of the aircraft and spent about 20 minutes on flotation devices.
"If we didn't get there quick enough ... thank God we got there quick enough," said Daniel Higgins Sr., an off-duty detective who drove the boat and whose son, Daniel Jr., 12, also was aboard and assisted in the rescue efforts. "It's what we do for a living, and I'm just glad we were in the right place at the right time."
