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Small Plane Crash

One Killed, Another Injured In Small Plane Crash Onto NY Road: Police One Killed, Another Injured In Small Plane Crash Onto NY Road: Police
One Killed, Another Injured In Small Plane Crash Onto NY Road: Police A small plane carrying two men crashed onto a road in a New York neighborhood, killing one and injuring the other, police announced on Friday, Aug. 1. The crash happened just after 1:30 p.m. near Maplewood Park, north of State Route 104, according to Rochester Police Captain Greg Bello. The plane came to rest on Bridge View Drive in Rochester’s Maplewood neighborhood, and no vehicles were involved, Bello said. One man was pronounced dead at the scene, while the other was extricated from the wreckage and taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Their identities have not been r…
NY Legislator Killed In Plane Crash 'Passed Doing What He Loved,' Colleague Says NY Legislator Killed In Plane Crash 'Passed Doing What He Loved,' Colleague Says
NY Legislator Killed In Plane Crash 'Passed Doing What He Loved,' Colleague Says Tributes are flooding in for a New York county legislator who was killed in a small plane crash in Rhode Island that injured two others. Montgomery County Legislator Dan Wilson, 77, died Wednesday, July 30, when the single-engine Piper Cherokee Archer went down during a failed landing attempt at Block Island State Airport, colleagues and police confirmed. Two other passengers—an 87-year-old pilot from Mechanicville and a 77-year-old woman from Clifton Park—survived and were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, North Shoreham Police said. The plane, owned by the Condair Flyers F…
Cops ID Pilot, Passenger Killed In I-684 Plane Crash At NY/CT Line Cops ID Pilot, Passenger Killed In I-684 Plane Crash At NY/CT Line
Cops ID Pilot, Passenger Killed In I-684 Plane Crash At NY/CT Line Authorities have released the identities of both the pilot who survived and the passenger who died in a small plane crash that shut down Interstate 684 at the border of Fairfield, CT and Westchester, CT counties for hours. Kalmen Goldberger, 26, of Linden, NJ, had reported engine trouble before the single-engine Tecnam P-2008 went down in the center median of I-684 near Exit 2 in Harrison Thursday, Dec. 12 around 7:15 p.m., officials said. Goldberger survived, however, his passenger, Jacob Yankele Friedman, 32, of the Rockland County hamlet of Monsey, was pronounced dead at the scene, Conne…