Debris Found After Small Plane Goes Down Near Breezy Point, Queens

Luggage from the plane also has been found. The search was suspended until daylight Thursday due to heavy fog in the area.

NYPD harbor units discovered several aircraft parts about a mile and a half off Breezy Point at about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, CBS New York reported.

Police started getting calls about 7:50 p.m. from people who saw and hear a plane crash into the water, sources said.

‘We were sitting on the beach.

‘It was heading toward Manhattan.

Officials are reportedly “sending someone” to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the plane’s destination, in the hopes of identifying the deceased.

It was cruising at around 1,000 feet but then suddenly plummeted very quickly into the ocean.

The Federal Aviation Administration said it does not have any reports of a missing plane in the area.

The NYPD Special Ops tweeted a picture of the plane’s partly submerged tail.

Authorities say one person is dead after a plane that took off from Northeast Philadelphia Airport crashed in the Atlantic Ocean off Queens, New York.

In the meantime, officers in four-wheelers are riding along the coast searching for debris.