Gothamist⁠76%

Sea plane makes hard landing into the East River Sunday afternoon ⁠8%

By Ramsey Khalifeh⁠0%

7/5/2026, 8:15:33 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Negativity Bias, and Hasty Generalization, with Anchoring Bias as the most egregious example at 24.4% saturation with 30 hits. Analysis detected 128 faulty-reasoning hits from 123 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 24.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠8% (19,506 of 21,176 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 92.10% of the article peer group.

A sea plane made a hard landing into the East River on Sunday, but all eight passengers were safely rescued, according to the NYPD. 
Police said at around 12:03 p.m., a sea plane made a hard landing into the waterway and slowly began tilting into the water. 
It landed near FDR Drive and East 23rd St. 
Officials said eight passengers, including two crew members, were rescued. 
One person suffered minor injuries. 
The Federal Aviation Administration said it’s begun to investigate the incident. 
In a statement, it said that the plane was a Kodiak 100 seaplane, and that a wing strut, which connects the wing to the main body of the aircraft, snapped. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 2.5%Gothamist: 2.7%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 24.4%Ramsey Khalifeh: 1.3%Gothamist: 1.5%Anchoring Bias24.4%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 2.4%Gothamist: 3.6%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.5%Gothamist: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.4%Gothamist: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 1.2%Gothamist: 1.2%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 4.1%Ramsey Khalifeh: 7.5%Gothamist: 8.4%Framing Effect4.1%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 1.5%Gothamist: 1.2%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 1.1%Gothamist: 1.1%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.5%Gothamist: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 4.1%Ramsey Khalifeh: 4.3%Gothamist: 3.6%Optimism Bias4.1%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 1.7%Gothamist: 1.7%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 19.5%Ramsey Khalifeh: 7.8%Gothamist: 8.5%Negativity Bias19.5%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 2.3%Gothamist: 2.6%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 1.0%Gothamist: 1.0%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.4%Gothamist: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.8%Gothamist: 2.1%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.3%Gothamist: 0.6%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.5%Gothamist: 2.1%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.1%Gothamist: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.9%Gothamist: 1.3%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.4%Gothamist: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.1%Gothamist: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.7%Gothamist: 1.0%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.3%Gothamist: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 8.9%Ramsey Khalifeh: 3.7%Gothamist: 4.4%Appeal to Authority8.9%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 1.0%Gothamist: 1.2%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.7%Gothamist: 0.8%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 18.7%Ramsey Khalifeh: 2.4%Gothamist: 3.8%Hasty Generalization18.7%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.2%Gothamist: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 4.1%Gothamist: 6.4%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.8%Gothamist: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 1.5%Gothamist: 2.4%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.1%Gothamist: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.4%Gothamist: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.1%Gothamist: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.1%Gothamist: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 1.6%Gothamist: 2.8%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.3%Gothamist: 1.2%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.1%Gothamist: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.1%Gothamist: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.3%Gothamist: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.7%Gothamist: 1.2%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 1.5%Gothamist: 1.0%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 24.4%Ramsey Khalifeh: 1.9%Gothamist: 3.2%Biased Writer Voice24.4%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 2.1%Gothamist: 1.5%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.1%Gothamist: 1.0%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.4%Gothamist: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ramsey Khalifeh: 0.3%Gothamist: 1.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

123 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers53%attributed speech58writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageNY.P.D. • 24 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 23 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverageFederal Aviation Administration • 11 words • 0.0% coverageFederal Aviation Administration • 30 words • 100.0% coverage
100%flagged-word coverage
41 attributed words63% of attributed speech48% writer coverage
0%37.5%75.0%Biased Writer Voice+73.2 ptsWriter: 0.0%Federal Aviation Administration: 73.2%73.2%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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