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Plane crash lands on Fire Island, passengers unhurt

Paul Santopietro was flying a small plane over the Great South Bay Sunday morning when the engine quit.

He had three options: the South Shore, blanketed with houses; the strip of sand on Fire Island; or the water.

He chose the beach.

A minute and a half after he lost engine power, Santopietro, 59, of Providence, R.I., safely glided the fixed-wing plane onto the beach at Fire Island...

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