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There was no airplane crash Sunday night.
Blooming Grove police said that hours of searching Sunday night and
again yesterday
afternoon failed to confirm reports that a plane crashed on Schunemunk
Mountain.
Authorities pinpointed a burning vacant cabin as the source of the
smoke that first prompted
reports of a downed aircraft, said Blooming Grove police Sgt. Nicholas
Solfaro.
The confusion started Sunday when Stewart International Airport
reported getting a distress
signal at the same time Blooming Grove police, on routine patrol, noticed
a helicopter near the
mountain and smoke billowing from the woods, Solfaro said.
The helicopter, police said, was a medical one transporting a patient
to Westchester Medical
Center in Valhalla, the smoke was from the burning cabin and the distress
signal was a false
alarm.
A New York State Police helicopter circled the area again yesterday to
be doubly sure there
wasn't a downed plane, Solfaro said. There wasn't. Case closed.
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