{"id":10314,"date":"2025-06-01T16:56:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T16:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=10314"},"modified":"2025-06-01T16:56:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T16:56:33","slug":"2-rescued-after-long-island-sound-plane-crash-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=10314","title":{"rendered":"2 rescued after Long Island Sound plane crash: Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Two people were rescued Sunday morning after a private Piper PA-32 plane they were aboard crashed into the Long Island Sound near a Connecticut airport, <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/newsroom\/statements\/accident_incidents#Top:~:text=General%20Aviation%20\/%20New%20Haven%2C%20Connecticut%C2%A0\" target=\"_blank\">according to<\/a> the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the U.S. Coast Guard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The crash occurred about 10:30 a.m. south of the Tweed New Haven Airport in New Haven, Connecticut, according to the FAA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Coast Guard Station New Haven dispatched a 45-foot boat to the scene after the Sector Long Island Sound Command Center received notification from the air traffic control tower that the aircraft went down in the vacinity of the Thimble Islands near Branford, Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;The two persons onboard the aircraft were rescued and in stable condition,&#8221; the Coast Guard said in a statement to ABC News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The two rescued occupants of the plane were taken to the Stony Creek Pier in Branford, where emergency medical service workers took over their care, according to the Coast Guard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The FAA is investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><em class=\" \">This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people were rescued Sunday morning after a private Piper PA-32 plane they were aboard crashed into the Long Island Sound near a Connecticut airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the U.S. Coast Guard. The crash occurred about 10:30 a.m. south of the Tweed New Haven Airport in New Haven, Connecticut, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10316,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10314\/revisions\/10316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}