The New Jersey State Police initially claimed they had located one survivor, presumed to be the pilot and sole passenger of the aircraft. However, police later said that they had rather recovered a body from the wreckage - without specifying if it was the pilot.
Police and firefighters continued to search the river at the site of the crash, but the plane is presumed to be a single-seat aircraft.
Further conflicting reports
New Jersey State Police Sergeant Jeff Flynn said that the aircraft went down at the level of West 79th Street on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, about two miles (three kilometers) south of the George Washington Bridge. The incident occurred at around 7:30 p.m. local time.
New York Police spokesman J. Peter Donald, however, said on Twitter that the aircraft went down further south near the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, adding that the police department`s harbor units were on scene.
A US Airways commercial jet carrying 155 people had splash-landed in the same area in 2009 - in what some dubbed the "miracle on the Hudson," with all passengers surviving the crash.
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