All eight people on a float-equipped Daher Kodiak 100 were safe after the aircraft landed hard on the East River in New York and suffered some kind of structural failure. From photos at the scene it looks like the left float structure collapsed, but he FAA said in an X post that a wing strut “snapped.” The New York Times interviewed two occupants of the aircraft, Ada Todd, 75, and her 16-year-old granddaughter Kloe, who said rescuers were on the scene within two minutes of the mishap. The plane was headed to the seaplane base on Manhattan’s east side after a flight from the Hamptons. One person is reported to have been slightly injured.
No information is available about the aircraft owners because they have their identities blocked on the registry. Likewise, flight tracking data is blocked. The owner is an LLC, however. The plane was built in 2025 and is serial number 363. Boats and another aircraft in the vicinity rushed to the scene and some passengers were seen on the high-riding float. A fire department rescue boat took all the occupants to the seaplane base.
The pilot of a Kodiak 100 seaplane made a hard landing today in the East River near Brooklyn, New York, at about noon local time, causing a wing strut to snap. Air traffic control was not providing services to the aircraft. The FAA will investigate. https://t.co/oEuuTipxi1
— The FAA ✈️ (@FAANews) July 5, 2026
Wing strut connected to the float??? How about spreader bars and fuselage struts.
Maybe somebody told the pilot to cool his jets.