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IDs Released For Two Killed, Four Injured In Plane Crash Into House Near Area Airport IDs Released For Two Killed, Four Injured In Plane Crash Into House Near Area Airport
IDs Released For Two Killed, Four Injured In Plane Crash Into House Near Area Airport The identities of the two people killed and four injured when a small plane crashed into a two-story home near a public-access airport in the area have been released. The crash happened in Dutchess County just after 4 p.m. Saturday afternoon, Aug. 17 on South Smith Road in Union Vale, just south of Sky Acres Airport and east of the Taconic State Parkway. The two who died were the pilot of the Cessna 303, identified as Francisco Knipping-Diaz, 61, of Woodmere in Nassau County, and a man who was in the house at the time, Gerard Bocker, 61, who has been tentativel…

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by Joe Lombardi
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Services Scheduled For Woman Struck, Killed By Toyota Tundra After Exiting Stopped BMW Services Scheduled For Woman Struck, Killed By Toyota Tundra After Exiting Stopped BMW
Services Scheduled For Woman Struck, Killed By Toyota Tundra After Exiting Stopped BMW Services have been scheduled for the lifelong area resident who was struck and killed by a full-size truck after exiting her stopped vehicle on a stretch of Route 82 in Dutchess County earlier this month. Hope Ann McLucas was 54. The incident occurred around 9:15 p.m. on Friday, June 7 in the Town of Washington. An initial investigation found a white 2006 BMW 325 was parked southbound on Route 82 near South Road in the center of her lane of travel with her vehicle flashers on, state police said. McLucas, of Pleasant Valley, exited her vehicle possibly to attend to raccoons on or …

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by Joe Lombardi