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Plane Crash
Obituaries
29-Year-Old Killed In MA Plane Crash Remembered As ‘Bright Shining Light’
Friends and colleagues are reminiscing on the bright personality of a 29-year-old student pilot from Connecticut who was one of three who died in a small plane crash in northern Massachusetts, after his tragic death. Chad Davidson, age 29, of the town of Woodstock in Windham County, was killed alongside a pair of Western Massachusetts residents from Hampden County on Sunday, Jan. 14 when the Baron Twin-Piston they were in crashed. Earlier Report - Triple-Fatal Plane Crash: 29-Year-Old Student Pilot From Woodstock ID'd As One Of Victims According to Massachusetts State …
Police & Fire
Western Mass Plane Crash Victims ID'd; Student Pilot, Flight Instructor Among Dead
Investigators have identified the three people killed in a Sunday, Jan. 14, plane crash in Franklin County as a student pilot, his instructor, and the owner of a flight school. They are: William Hampton, age 68, of Indian Orchard Chad Davidson, age 29, of Woodstock, Connecticut Fredrika Ballard, age 53, of Southwick Ballard owned Fly Lugu Flight School and Hampton was an instructor. Davidson was taking flying lessons, Massachusetts State Police said. Related: No Survivors: Plane Crash In Western Mass According to flight tracker data, the twin-engine Beechcraft Baron 5…
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Latest Update: The plane took off from Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport with three adults on board, flight tracker records and reports said. Related: Police ID Victims In Franklin County Plane Crash The plane, with the tail number N7345R, was licensed to Fly Lugu, LLC, out of Southwick. Fly tracker data show the plane made several revolutions with fluctuating altitudes before crashing in a heavily wooded area in Franklin County. Update: The National Transportation Safety Board said a twin-engine Beechcraft Baron 55 went down in a wooded area in Frank…
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Plane En Route From Martha's Vineyard To Montauk Crashes At Fishers Island
Three people on board a small plane en route from Martha's Vineyard escaped injury after it crashed on Long Island. The incident happened around 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 18 at Fishers Island Airport in Suffolk County. The plane, a Piper PA32 single engine, was traveling to Montauk when the aircraft began to have engine troubles, according to New York State Police. The pilot attempted an emergency landing at Fishers Island Airport and crashed just prior to the runway. There was a pilot and two passengers on the plane and no one was injured, said police. This incident is under inve…
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Plane Crashes On Martha's Vineyard; Pilot Walks Away
A single-engine plane crashed Sunday morning in Martha's Vineyard, but luckily no one was injured, rescue personnel said. The Arnold Volksplane VP-1 came down just before 11 a.m. after the pilot lost altitude on his landing descent coming into Martha's Vineyard Airport, the West Tisbury Police Department said. The aviator radioed the tower about two miles east of the runway to declare an emergency and made a crash-landing in a field in the nearby Manuel F. Correllus State Forest. Emergency responders treated the pilot, but he was seriously uninjured, police said. …
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Passenger 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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Plane Crashes Shortly After Takeoff At Hartford-Brainard Airport
A plane crashed shortly after takeoff at Hartford-Brainard Airport late Saturday afternoon, Jan. 28, according to authorities. The incident happened just before 4 p.m. and, according to a report by WFSB, include a single-engine aircraft. Information on any possible injuries has not yet been released. This is a developing story. Check back to Daily Voice for updates.
Obituaries
Pilot Killed In Cape Cod Plane Crash Was Dedicated Husband, Purdue Alumnus
An 83-year-old man who died in a plane crash on Cape Cod was a seasoned pilot, devoted husband and accomplished alumnus of Purdue University. Carl "Rae" Willis died after his small plane crashed at Falmouth Airpark while he and his wife, Candace Oldham, were coming home from a day trip to Westfield last week. Willis was brought to Falmouth Hospital where later died while Oldham was taken to Rhode Island Hospital with serious injuries, authorities said. #BREAKING: Crews are on scene of a plane crash at the #Falmouth Air Park.Sky5 is overhead, and we have crews on the way to the scene.…
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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. 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. #BREAKING: Crews are on scene of a plane crash at the #Falmouth Air Park.Sky5 is overhead, and we have crews on the way to the scene.#wcvb pic.twitter.com/jgnWqsu9G6 — K…
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: 2 Seriously Injured After Plane Crashes At Cape Cod Airpark
Two people are seriously injured after a small plane crashed at an airpark on Cape Cod, authorities said. Falmouth Police and Fire responded to the crash at Falmouth Airpark on Airpark Drive in East Falmouth on the afternoon of Friday, Dec. 2, Falmouth Fire Chief Tim Smith told Daily Voice. #BREAKING: Crews are on scene of a plane crash at the #Falmouth Air Park.Sky5 is overhead, and we have crews on the way to the scene.#wcvb pic.twitter.com/jgnWqsu9G6 — Kevin Wiles Jr (@kwilesjrnews) December 2, 2022 Both people on board were being treated for life-threatening injuries, Smith added. …
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Templeton Man Killed After Airplane Slammed Into NH Apartment Building, Exploded: Police
A Massachusetts man was one of the two men killed in a fiery plane crash Friday night, Oct. 21, in New Hampshire, local authorities announced this week. Lawrence Marchiony, 41, of Baldwinville, was killed along with Marvin David Dezendorf, 60 years old, of Townshend, VT, in the crash, Keene town officials said. Police said both men were experienced pilots, but they do not know who was flying at the time of the crash. Investigators said the two men were aboard a single-engine plane that took off from Keene Dillant-Hopkins Airport in Keene, NH, just after 6:45 p.m. A few minutes later, the…
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Plane Crashes At Boy Scout Camp Near Airport In Region
A small plane crashed at a Boy Scouts of America camp near a Connecticut airport. The crash took place in Litchfield County in Plymouth around 1 p.m. Tuesday, July 5, at Camp Mattatuck. According to a release from the Connecticut Rivers Boy Scout Council, the light aircraft crashed on the southern end of the camp, which is approximately a quarter of a mile away from any of the camp program or campers. No campers or programs were affected by the crash and the program will continue as planned, the council said. According to Federal Aviation Administration, a single-engine Cessna 185 crashed…
Police & Fire
Man From The Region Walks Away Uninjured After NJ Plane Crash
A Fairfield County man was among three who escaped uninjured when the plane they were flying in ran off a runway and crashed at the Essex County Airport in New Jersey on Easter Sunday, authorities said. The 2020 Citation CJ3 Plus was found at the end of Runway 22 in a drainage brook at approximately 2:40 p.m., on Sunday, April 17, police in Fairfield, New Jersey, said. As police and EMS were arriving, the pilot and two passengers were climbing out, police said. They were identified as Corie Dave Bennett, age 45, of Danbury,; Carlos Rodriguez, age 57, of Poughkeepsie, NY; and the p…
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Major NY Tech Company Founder Who Flew Flight With Shatner One Of Two Killed In NJ Plane Crash
A major New York tech company founder who blasted into space with actor William Shatner last month was aboard a small plane that crashed in New Jersey, killing him and a local flight instructor, authorities confirmed Friday, Nov 12. Glen M. De Vries, age 49, of New York City, and Thomas P. Fischer, age 54, of Hopatcong, New Jersey, were both aboard the single-engine Cessna 172 that crashed in a wooded area of a state park near Lake Kemah around 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 11, according to New Jersey State Police spokeswoman Brandi Slota and the FAA. The plane had been reported missing nearly an …
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Plane That Burned After Takeoff Carried Baseball Fans Bound For Playoff Game In Boston
Baseball fans headed to the Red Sox-Houston ALCS Game 4 at Fenway Park in Boston escaped serious injury when the plane they were aboard crashed and caught on fire. The crash took place around 10 a.m. Central Time on Tuesday, Oct. 19, in Houston, Texas, not too far from the Houston Executive Airport, said the Texas Department of Public Safety. The owner of the plane told ABC 5 WCBV-TV in Boston, he and his friends were heading for the game when the plane crashed as it was taking off. Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Sgt. Stephen Woodard told the news station the plane had tr…
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Two Massachusetts Residents ID'd As Victims In Hartford County Plane Crash
Two pilots from Connecticut were killed in a plane crash into a commercial building along with a couple from Boston. The Cessna citation 560X business jet crashed around 9:50 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 2, in Hartford County at Trumpf Inc., a manufacturer in Farmington. The jet had just taken off from the Robertson Airport in Plainville, headed for Dare County Regional Airport in North Carolina, said the Federal Aviation Administration, said Lieutenant Tim McKenzie, of the Farmington Police. See Earlier Story: Four Confirmed Dead After Plane Crashes Into Building In Farmington The two…
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Four Confirmed Dead After Plane Crashes Into Building In Hartford County
Police have confirmed that all four people aboard a small jet that crashed into a commercial building in Connecticut have died. The Cessna citation 560X business jet crashed around 9:50 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 2, in Hartford County at Trumpf Inc., a manufacturer in Farmington. The jet had just taken off from the Robertson Airport in Plainville, headed for Dare County Regional Airport in North Carolina, said the Federal Aviation Administration. Farmington Police confirmed that all four, two pilots, and two passengers died during the crash. Police said during a press conference the first offi…
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Plane Crashes Into Building In Hartford County
A plane believed to be carrying four people crashed into a building in Connecticut, authorities said. The plane crashed Thursday, Sept. 2, into a commercial building in Hartford County at 111 Hyde Road, near the town line and Robertson Airport located in Plainville, Farmington Police report. The building houses Trumpf Medical Systems Inc. The extent of injuries, if any, isn’t clear at this time. As of 11 a.m., there are reports of fire and smoke still rising from the building. Police are asking people to avoid the area as they work to evacuate surrounding buildings. This is a devel…
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