Banner Tow Super Cub Down Off Of New Hampshire Beach

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Plane crashes into water off New Hampshire beach
Pilot not injured

https://www.wmur.com/article/hampton-be ... h/44680232
Link has videos.

Thousands of people on Hampton Beach watching as *** single engine plane crashes into the ocean. I saw the plane and I heard it going wrong and then I saw the propeller stop, it's going down. *** plane's going down and it's crashed and we all stood up that crash captured from multiple angles. The plane seemed just missing *** group of swimmers. If it was any closer, it would have hit somebody. It was really close to the shore. Incredibly, the pilot and everyone in the water was ok. The lifeguards jumping into help and the pilot swimming back to shore. He walked out in his clothes and socks and shoes and he shaken up though the plane was pulled from the water and set onto the sand with visible damage to its front end. Witnesses say it was carrying *** banner advertising *** local business FAA. Records show the plane is registered to the owner of *** local aerial ads company. Flight tracking software shows it had taken off at the Hampton airfield at 10 45. The pilot declining to speak with news nine but says he's doing ok. And all of *** sudden the guy swam out and it's like, wow, thank God he's alive.

HAMPTON, N.H. —
A banner plane landed in the water off Hampton Beach around noon on Saturday.

Video from a WMUR viewer shows the plane trying to land on the water. The plane tail flipped into the air when the nose made contact with the water.

The plane then flipped back and ended upright in the water.

>> Watch video of the crash here <<

Hampton Police Chief Alex Reno said the plane was a fixed-wing, banner-carrying aircraft.

He told WMUR the pilot was the only person on board and was rescued by lifeguards. The pilot did not suffer any injuries.

One witness posted on Twitter the plane had been pulling a sign advertising a local business before trying to land.

The plane has since been pulled to shore.

The plane has the tail number N4890P. According to FAA records, the plane is a Piper PA-18-150, registered to Eugene F. Gray, of North Hampton.

According to New Hampshire Secretary of State records, Gray is a co-owner of Sky Lines Aerial Ads, LLC, of North Hampton.

According to flight tracking software, the plane had taken off from Hampton Airfield around 10:45 a.m. It made a few laps along Hampton Beach and Salisbury Beach before tracking ended at 11:59 a.m.

>> Watch as the plane is pulled ashore:

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The pilot declined to speak to WMUR on camera.

Police at the scene said he had reported engine problems, but the exact cause is being investigated by the F.A.A.

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