Here, a private aircraft owned and operated by defendant, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean while in flight from Rhode Island to East Hampton, Long Island. A party seeking to apply maritime law in a state tort action must show that the tort occurred on navigable water or that injury suffered on land was caused by a vessel on navigable water, and that the general character of the activity giving rise to the incident shows a "substantial relationship to traditional maritime activity...
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