Hudson River plane crash was training flight that went awry: insider

Source: New York Post

The single-engine plane that crashed into the Hudson River Monday night was a Long Island training flight that suffered engine failure and had to make a daredevil landing on floating ice, police said.   The small plane — which belongs to Long Island Flying, according to its tail number — took off from MacArthur Airport in Islip just an hour before it came down near Newburgh east of Stewart International Airport after the pilot reported that he was in trouble. “Yeah, we’re going to go into the Hudson … I don’t think we’re going to make the airport,” the pilot, identified by state police as 31-year-old Liam Darcy, told air traffic control, according to audio of the distress call.