The plane that landed on the Hudson river earlier this month “lost total power,” causing it to plunge and forcing the pilots to swim across the frozen waters, the feds revealed.
The National Transportation Safety Board, which released its preliminary report on the crash late Wednesday, revealed the plane’s engine had started underperforming after the pair had reached Stewart International Airport for a “touch-and-go landing.”
Just moments after radioing in the emergency to Air Traffic Control, the plane’s engine “began to run extremely rough” before it completely died, prompting lead pilot and instructor Liam Darcy, 31, to take over control of the aircraft from his 17-year-old trainee and pull off a miracle landing on the frozen river, the NTSB report said…