Eight people rescued after seaplane comes down in East River off New York City ⁠20%

By Katie Hawkinson⁠0%

7/5/2026, 8:20:28 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Post Hoc (False Cause), and Optimism Bias, with Halo Effect as the most egregious example at 20.1% saturation with 58 hits. Analysis detected 403 faulty-reasoning hits from 288 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 34.9% and a BS Rank of ⁠20% (16,387 of 20,409 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 80.30% of the article peer group.

Eight people were rescued from a seaplane after it made a “hard landing” in New York City’s East River. 
The Kodiak 100 seaplane made a “hard landing” and “tilted into the water” shortly after noon on Sunday, a New York Police Department spokesperson said. 
Crews rescued eight adults from the plane, including the pilot. 
Officials offered conflicting reports of how many people were injured. 
The police department’s spokesperson said one person sustained minor injuries, while the New York Fire Department said two civilians had minor injuries. 
“Mayday, mayday, mayday. 
Plane down in the water,” the helicopter pilot said. 
“It looks like the pilot is OK,” the helicopter pilot added. 
The plane departed from East Hampton and was en route to the seaplane base Skyport, located off East 23rd Street and Franklin D. 
Roosevelt Drive, The New York Times reported. 
Witness Marcus Hurlburt told The NYT he saw at least three people get on top of one of the plane’s floats. 
He also praised the pilot and compared him to Sully Sullenberger, the pilot who famously landed a U.S. 
Airways jet in the Hudson River in January 2009, saving the lives of everyone on board. 
“The pilot did a great job on making sure it didn’t turn over,” Hurlburt told the newspaper. 
“He pulled a Sully on that one. 
I was so impressed the pilot didn’t let it sink.” 
This comes just weeks after crews had to rescue a seaplane pilot and his passenger from the East River after a wave hit the aircraft during takeoff, according to the New York Post. 
No one was seriously hurt in the incident, which unfolded on June 13. 
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288 words analyzed.

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The New York Post

100%flagged-word coverage
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Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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