(CNN) When a small plane made an emergency landing Tuesday evening just feet off the Maryland coast, Graysen Levy couldn't believe what she was seeing.

"Do you hear that noise?" she remembered her boyfriend, Jeffrey Ratner, asking her.

They both turned to look and were shocked to see a plane hovering just a few feet above the water at Ocean City, she told CNN. Levy, who'd been taking a photo of the sky behind them, quickly started recording.

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Levy thought the plane was putting on a show and would curve back up, away from the water, she said.

But it didn't.

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