Mark Finkelstein was pulled from his single engine aircraft on August 2 near Oak Island Pier, North Carolina , after having to ditch the plane into the water.

Drone footage shows a pilot being dragged by his legs out of a submerged cockpit after ditching his plane in the ocean to avoid a busy beach. While flying over Oak Island beach in…

This is the dramatic moment a plane flips over after emergency landing in water, leaving the pilot trapped in a small pocket of air in the mostly submerged aircraft.