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Passenger From CT Crash Lands Plane On Martha's Vineyard After Pilot Suffers Medical Emergency Passenger From CT Crash Lands Plane On Martha's Vineyard After Pilot Suffers Medical Emergency
Passenger From CT Crash Lands Plane On Martha's Vineyard After Pilot Suffers Medical Emergency A female passenger took the controls of a small plane that departed from New York and crash-landed on Martha's Vineyard Island after the pilot suffered a medical emergency, according to Massachusetts State Police. The incident happened at around 3:15 p.m. Saturday, July 15 in a grassy area near a runway at Martha’s Vineyard Airport. The aircraft, a 2006 Piper Meridian, departed from Westchester County Airport in White Plains earlier in the afternoon. The pilot and passenger are Connecticut residents. A preliminary investigation indicates that the woman took the controls after the…

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