The crash took place during Fleet Week, a week-long celebration of the U.S. military's seafaring service members. The American Airpower Museum, which owned the plane, said in a statement on Facebook on Saturday that Gordon was an "extraordinary" aviator who brought the plane down in a "forced emergency landing" on the Hudson. Gary Lewi, a spokesman for the museum in Farmingdale, New York, told Long Island newspaper Newsday that the aircraft's engine failed during the flight. NEW YORK (Reuters) - The pilot of a World War Two-era plane killed in a crash in the Hudson River off Manhattan on Friday evening was trying to execute an emergency landing, the museum that owned the vintage aircraft said. The FAA said the plane was one of three aircraft that took off from Republic Airport in Farmingdale.

Source: Huffington Post May 28, 2016 19:41 UTC