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Headline: Seaplane Crashes Into Queens Pier

Caption: A woman has died and two others critically injured after a small aircraft crashed into a pier in Queens Saturday afternoon, FDNY officials confirmed. Emergency crews responded to the pier near the Long Island Sound for reports of a plane down around 3 p.m. The FNDY confirmed three people were aboard the single-engine seaplane at the time of the crash. The woman who suffered fatal injuries was identified by police as 61-year-old Maggie O'Neill and the pilot was identified was Giuseppe Oppedisano, 61, the owner of a Queens restaurant Il Bacco. Oppedisano and the other passenger, who was only identified as a 66-year-old man, were already out of the plane when the first crews arrived at the scene, according to an FDNY spokesperson. All three were rushed to nearby hospitals when O'Neill died.

Keywords: news,Small Plane Crashes into a Pier near Beechhurst Yacht Club in Whitestone Queens

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