A World War II vintage plane crashed in the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey Friday afternoon.
The body of William Gordon, 56, has been recovered, according to CNN. He is presumed to have been the pilot of the single-seat plane.
Gordon was from Key West, Florida.
The plane, a P-47 Thunderbolt, crashed on a section of the river near where a US Airways commercial jet carrying 155 people splash-landed in 2009 in what became known as the Miracle on the Hudson.
New York Police Department Det. Michael Debonis said that scuba divers recovered a body from the plane around 10:30 p.m.
New Jersey state police had previously reported that the pilot of the plane had been rescued and taken to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries, but they later retracted that statement and said they could no longer confirm a swimmer in the water was the pilot. They said the NYPD was the lead agency on the case.
The Associated Press contributed to this report
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