A pilot is dead following a plane crash in the Hudson River on Friday night, according to the city police department.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the plane crashed in the river near the George Washington Bridge around 7:30 p.m.
Scuba divers pulled a pilot's body out of the river about three hours later, according to police.
Officials said the pilot was the only person in the single-seater aircraft.
The New Jersey state police originally said a pilot from the plane was taken to a hospital with minor injuries. But it, along with the NYPD, later said the reports were conflicting.
The plane was one of three aircrafts that departed from the American Airpower Museum at Republic Airport in Long Island, according to the museum.
The other two returned to the airport and landed safely, the FAA said.
Witnesses told NY1 what they saw.
"We saw the planes coming, and first we said, 'Maybe they were practicing for a maneuver or something,'" one witness said near the river. "And then we were sitting and talking by the water, and all of a sudden we hear tons of sirens, and before we knew it they were coming down here."
"I saw the airplane was going around a couple of times, and then it just disappeared," another witness said.
The museum said the planes were not participating in the Fleet Week show.
"The FAA received a report that a World War II vintage P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft may have gone downing the Hudson River, two miles south of the George Washington Bridge," a FAA spokesperson had said in a statement. "The FAA notified the NYPD Aviation Unit and the Port Authority of NY and NJ. Search and rescue was headed to the scene. We will update the statement when we get new information."
The scene was reminiscent of the so-called Miracle on the Hudson from back in 2009, when U.S. Airways Flight 1549 made a splash landing into the river.
All 155 passengers and crewmembers survived the incident, and Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger became a household name.