83-Year-Old Pilot Dies Following Cape Cod Airpark Plane Crash: Police

The pilot of a small plane that crashed at an airpark on Cape Cod earlier this week has died, authorities said.

Rescue crews were on the scene of a plane crash that left two people with life-threatening injuries at Falmouth Airpark in East Falmouth

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David Cifarelli

12/04/2022 9:30 a.m.

The 83-year-old pilot was identified as Carl Willis, Massachusetts State Police Spokesperson Dave Procopio told Daily Voice.

He and his wife, Candace Oldham, age 70, were hospitalized following the crash that happened at Falmouth Airpark on Airpark Drive in East Falmouth on the afternoon of Friday, Dec. 2.

Willis was brought to Falmouth Hospital where later died while Oldham was brought to Rhode Island Hospital with serious injuries, Procopio said. The Falmouth couple was apparently returning from a day trip to Westfield along with several other couples who flew their own planes, he added.

The single-engine aircraft crashed in a grassy are short of the northeast side of Runway 25 at the park. The Federal Aviation Association and the National Transportation Safety Board are said to be investigating the crash.

This is the same airpark where a fatal plane crash occurred in June 2008, Cape Cod Times reports. The cause of that crash was left undermined.

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