Mark Finkelstein has been flying for 17 years and says what was supposed to be a short flight quickly turned into a nightmare ...

Pilot Mark Finkelstein took a small single-engine plane for a short flight on Saturday evening — only to find himself in the water just 13 minutes later.

Mark Finkelstein wanted to take a quick flight to the other end of Oak Island and back Saturday evening in what he thought ...

First responders treated a pilot who had to make an emergency landing in the ocean in North Carolina. See video of his rescue ...

At a certain point, the engine just stopped altogether and the propeller just stopped and at that point it was very clear ...

A beach packed with vacationers turned into an impromptu rescue scene when a single-engine plane splashed down just yards off ...

OAK ISLAND, N.C. -- A pilot was rescued Saturday after making an emergency landing in the ocean near a pier in Oak Island, ...

OAK ISLAND, N.C. (WTVD) -- A pilot was rescued Saturday after making an emergency landing in the ocean near Oak Island Pier.

WECT reports a small airplane crashed in the ocean near the Oak Island Pier at around 7:30 p.m. on Saturday. Town officials ...

M ark Finkelstein has degrees from Cornell, SUNY Buffalo and Harvard and is a Contributing Editor at NewsBusters. He lives in Ithaca, NY, where he hosts the ‘Right Angle’ TV show. ...

“I remember our first rider came back, and he looked at me with a grand smile on his face and said, 'Mr. Mark, we're going to remember this day for a long, long time,' ” Finkelstein recalled.