Video: Audio: False Mayday Call Off Coast of New Jersey

[NYCA News]

NYCAviation:

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The US Coast Guard released audio of the mayday call they received on Monday, June 11, 2012, in which someone claiming to be the captain of a large yacht named Blind Date reported that the boat had exploded and several of the 21 people were dead, injured or in the water. Dozens of boats and [...]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nycaviation/~4/ZyEtjKOJfs4
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[cancidas]

if this really was a prank then that idiot ought to be hung!!

[Gerard]

And the response by emergency services was IMMENSE including helos from multiple agencys. Gotta say if I had a camera it was like a Fly In of 1st
Responders. At least 2 NJSPD AB139s, NYPD had a couple of ships, reportedly Nassau flew in, EMS copters MONOC and Atlantic Health had their EC-135s,
USCG was flying SAR and a number of ENG ships on scene. If anything it was a good test of disaster response.

[Matt Molnar]

I guess the news choppers were afraid/not allowed to fly out there so they stayed over Sandy Hook waiting for the "victims" to arrive on Coast Guard craft. Someone in the control room asked Chopper 2 why they weren't going to get some debris shots, and he replied, "If our engine fails, we have to swim back."

Six helicopters landed next to Sandy Hook Coast Guard Station to medivac the victims. Looked like two NJSP, three regular medivacs and one I couldn't identify.

[NIKV69]

if this really was a prank then that idiot ought to be hung!!

Nah just make him reimburse the coast guard!

[PhilDernerJr]

I'm amazed that this happened. What kind of person would do such a thing?

Hats off to the fast and serious response of the rescuers though.