HAMILTON – State and local authorities scrambled to Duck Island Friday afternoon on a report of a airplane that had gone down in the Delaware River.
A marine unit from Trenton, Hamilton police and fire crews and several ambulances arrived on the eastern shore of the Delaware shortly before 1 p.m.
A boat was launched, ambulances staged and fire crews descended on a boat yard.
But after an extensive search of the water, no plane was found.
State Police from their Twitter account announced that the search was unfounded.
A float plane had landed in the water briefly and took off again.
Crews were recalled.
A Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman said there were not any hard-and-fast rules about landing in the Delaware River and the agency would usually defer to local laws.
There is no state law against float planes landing in the Delaware River, according to Brian Polite, spokesman for the State Police.
A plane landing in the Delaware River may violate local ordinance if the municipality where the landing takes place has passed an ordinance against it, Polite said.
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