Pilot Pulled from Water off Queens Was Former Navy Captain

James Bradford McGee

By Ray Villeda and Michael George 

The pilot pulled from the Atlantic Ocean off Breezy Point in Queens late Wednesday when his small plane crashed into the water was a former Navy captain and an investment company co-founder who was on his way back to New Hampshire from a business meeting in Philadelphia, his business partner says. 

James Bradford McGee of Rye, New Hampshire, was the only person aboard the Flight Design GMBH CTLS, a single piston aircraft, when it went down about a mile and a half off Breezy Point at about 7:30 p.m., authorities said. 

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Source: NBC News