Aircraft accidents

2004

August 12, 2004

Falling Short of Runway, Plane Plunges into Brush; Pilot and Passenger Hurt

Chris Burrell
Aircraft accidents
Martha's Vineyard Airport

The pilot and passenger of a single engine plane apparently escaped serious injury last evening after crashing their four-seater Mooney aircraft into the scrub oak and low brush just a couple hundred yards shy of the approach to runway 15 at the Martha's Vineyard Airport.

Police and ambulance crews from at least four Island towns responded, shortly after 6 p.m., to the scene at the border of the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest and the airport, finding a dismembered plane and two men, both conscious.

2002

November 21, 2002

New Evidence Confirms Violent Crash of Small Plane in Waters off Vineyard

Mark Alan Lovewell
Aircraft accidents
Diving

The discovery of airplane parts and other evidence at South Beach
this week confirms that two men traveling in a private plane that
disappeared 10 days ago were killed in a catastrophic crash in Vineyard
waters.

November 14, 2002

Search for Missing Plane Is Called Off; Pilot and Passenger Presumed Dead

Mark Alan Lovewell
Aircraft accidents

The land search for a plane carrying two people that is believed to
have crashed near or on Martha's Vineyard Tuesday night was
suspended yesterday afternoon at 3 p.m., pending new information.

For two long days and a night, local firemen, police and volunteers
combed the woods of the Island in search of the remains of a
single-engine airplane that went missing in foul weather. As the Gazette
went to press, there was still no trace of the plane.

August 5, 2002

Plane Crash South of Vineyard Takes Life of Research Scientist

Mark Alan Lovewell
Aircraft accidents

A 54-year-old pilot was killed when a plane he had built himself
crashed south of the Vineyard on Saturday afternoon. Timothy L. Crawford
of Idaho Falls, Ida., was piloting a single-engined, two-seater Long-EZ
aircraft from Barnstable Municipal Airport when for no known reason the
plane crashed about four miles south of Long Point, West Tisbury.

2001

February 8, 2001

Airplane Crash Data Released

Mark Alan Lovewell
Aircraft accidents

An investigator into the Jan. 30 crash of a Cape Air plane in the
state forest this week released the transcript of the dialogue between
the pilot and air traffic controllers. It is still unknown what caused
the airplane crash that seriously injured both the pilot and passenger.

February 1, 2001

Investigators Probe Cape Air Crash; Pilot, Passenger Suffer Burns in Escape

Mark Alan Lovewell
Aircraft accidents

Federal and state investigators continue their inquiry into the
causes of a commuter airplane crash early Tuesday night in the Manuel F.
Correllus State Forest. Both the plane's pilot and its sole
passenger remain hospitalized.

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