Chopper carrying 6 NYC officers makes emergency landing in bay, 1 suffers minor injury

NYPD chopper makes emergency landing in water

NEW YORK — An NYPD helicopter carrying five officers has made an emergency water landing.

Police say the helicopter landed upright in Jamaica Bay on Wednesday afternoon while returning to a nearby police department airfield. One of the officers suffered a minor injury.

The chopper was carrying a three-man flight crew and two scuba divers who were on a routine security patrol. Flotation devices were deployed before it landed in the bay.

The emergency landing happened around 3:45 p.m. It was not immediately clear what caused it.