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Pilot Survives Blairstown Crash Landing Pilot Survives Blairstown Crash Landing
Pilot Survives Blairstown Crash Landing A pilot was left with minor injuries after a glider plane crash landed into a Blairstown field Sunday, July 23, authorities said. Blairstown Police responded to the crash into a field near Vail Road around 2 p.m., Chief Scott Johnsen told Daily Voice. Hope Volunteer Firefighter John Kruk found the plane using a drone and contacted the pilot with help from the Blairstown Hose Company #1 and the Blairstown Ambulance Corps. The pilot had lost altitude and “did not have enough lift to make it back to the Blairstown Airport,” prompting a “controlled landing” onto the nearby cornfields, Johnsen…

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by Valerie Musson
Police & Fire
Pilot, 70, Killed As Glider Plane Crashes In North Jersey Pilot, 70, Killed As Glider Plane Crashes In North Jersey
Pilot, 70, Killed As Glider Plane Crashes In North Jersey The 70-year-old pilot of a glider plane was killed as the aircraft flipped and crashed into a field in North Jersey, authorities confirmed. Officers responding to the crash report near the Blairstown Airport saw the glider plane upside down in a grassy area near the airport just before 3 p.m. on Sunday, May 15, the Blairstown Township Police Department said in a Monday release. An off-duty police officer worked with bystanders to remove the pilot from the plane and begin CPR as the Blairstown Ambulance Corps and Blairstown Hose Company were called to the scene. Efforts to revive the pilot …

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by Valerie Musson
Obituaries
Body Of NJ Man Missing For Months Found By Hunters, Police Say Body Of NJ Man Missing For Months Found By Hunters, Police Say
Body Of NJ Man Missing For Months Found By Hunters, Police Say The body of a well-known 23-year-old man missing for months was found by hunters in a wooded area in Sussex County, authorities confirmed Tuesday. North Warren High School graduate Daniel Cannone — who went missing last October — was found dead in Frankford early Sunday, Blairstown Police said. He was found near in a “not often traversed” wooded area near the Frankford Municipal Building, according to the NJHerald, which cites assistant Sussex County Prosecutor Gregory Mueller. Cannone, of Blairstown, had last been seen on a RING camera on Saturday, Oct. 16, DailyVoice.com reported. He wa…

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by Valerie Musson
Police & Fire
Still No Sign Of Warren County 23-Year-Old Man Missing Since October Still No Sign Of Warren County 23-Year-Old Man Missing Since October
Still No Sign Of Warren County 23-Year-Old Man Missing Since October A 23-year-old Warren County man has now been missing since mid-October, according to police who say they have found no new leads. Daniel Cannone, of Blairstown, was last seen on a RING camera on Oct. 16, DailyVoice.com reported. Cannone was wearing a t-shirt and shorts and was carrying a backpack, police said. He was traveling on foot with no ID. Cannone’s vehicle was later recovered from the parking lot of Skylands Stadium in Augusta, which had previously hosted a weekly ‘Jack O’ Lantern Experience’ event, police said. In a Wednesday update on the case, Blairstown Police said no new inf…

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by Valerie Musson