Two people died after a small plane crashed in a wooded area near Westchester County airport after departing JFK Airport in Queens, New York.
Twenty minutes into the flight, the pilot, Boruch Taub, declared an emergency."We are losing oil pressure," he was heard telling air traffic control. He repeated the emergency three more times before giving the mayday alert at about 5:20 p.m. Thursday, according to the audio recording.
Air traffic control guided them to Westchester County Airport, which is about 40 miles north of JFK Airport, and was heard saying"you're set up perfectly" to land. FLORIDA PLANE CRASHES IN GULF OF MEXICO, BODY OF WOMAN AND CHILD FOUND, OFFICIALS SAYAir Traffic Control told the pilot,"Runaway is at your 10 o'clock and less than a mile. Radar contact lost," according to the audio.
Then all communications stopped. There was silence. Another voice was heard saying,"Any word from him?" The passenger Binyamin Chafetz called his wife, before the plane crashed in a densely wooded area in the suburban town around Rye Lake, New York, Westchester County Executive George Latimer said during a press conference Friday. Taub and Chafetz's bodies were recovered during an"exhaustive" search Thursday night by using the last pings from their cell phone help first responders narrow down the search of a densely wooded, 162-acre area, Latimer said.
"My sense is, had he had a little more altitude and a little more time, he would have made it safely to the runway," Latimer said."We're talking minutes, if that much."[email protected] all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox
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