Coast Guard: Pilot's responsible for salvaging plane that landed in Hudson

Originally published: February 4, 2013 2:31 PM
Updated: February 4, 2013 5:17 PM
By KEN SCHACHTER kenneth.schachter@cablevision.com

Photo credit: Handout | Denise de Priester of East Windsor, N.J., was taking in the Manhattan skyline Sunday with a friend, Christopher Smidt, a correctional sergeant from Colonia, N.J., when the engine balked somewhere around the George Washington Bridge.

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The Coast Guard and other government agencies will leave the salvage of a single-engine plane that made an emergency landing in the Hudson River off Yonkers in late January to the owner's insurance company because it is not blocking maritime traffic, officials said Monday.

The insurance company of the owner and pilot of the Piper PA-32, Deniece de Priester of East Windsor, N.J., will be responsible...

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