Civil Air Patrol finds downed plane near New York/New Jersey border

WANTAGE TOWNSHIP, NJ – The Civil Air Patrol New York Wing based in Poughkeepsie Thursday morning found the wreckage of a Cessna 210 aircraft with a deceased pilot aboard near the New York/New Jersey board in New Jersey’s Wantage Township. The crash site, in Sussex County, is just south of the Orange County hamlet of Unionville.
A South Eastern Group ground team from Poughkeepsie tracked an emergency
transmitter signal to a field and the bordering woods where the plane
had crashed, said Major William Martin, the CAP incident commander. The
plane had flipped over with the wings torn off.
A combined Mid Eastern/South Eastern Group team had initially targeted the field the night before, setting the stage for it to be located on Thursday.
Martin said the pilot appeared to be the lone occupant and was dead. “All appearances are that the aircraft was trying to land in the field and hit the tree line,” he said.
CAP teams had been searching for the crash site of the emergency locator transmitter since Tuesday after being alerted by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida.
There were no reports of missing or overdue aircraft reported, Martin said. Search aircraft from the Poughkeepsie CAP team initially localized the signal in the vicinity of Sussex Airport in New Jersey. A check of the airport revealed no signal was being received on the ground there.
Ground teams using electronic direction-finding equipment late into the night on Wednesday and when the search resumed on Thursday, the wreckage was located at about 10:42 a.m.
Information was not available on the pilot’s identity, or from where the flight originated.