Aircraft accidents

1999

July 20, 1999

Island Joins in Crash Search

Julia Wells
Aircraft accidents

In a chilling midsummer tragedy that made overnight headlines around the world and quickly put the Vineyard beneath the harsh spotlight of the national media, a small airplane flown by John F. Kennedy Jr. plunged into the Atlantic Ocean off the western end of the Island on Friday night.

1975

May 23, 1975

Copter Is Saved: Rescue Craft Itself Is Rescued Thanks to the Harbormaster

Vineyard Gazette
Harbor masters
U.S. Coast Guard
Aircraft accidents
This time on purpose, United States Coast Guard officers came to Martha’s Vineyard Wednesday night, to say a fervent thank-you to an Island harbormaster.
 
He is John M. Edwards of Edgartown, and he earned the citation presented to him at a ceremony in the board room of the Co-operative Bank by delivering a Coast Guard helicopter to safety from a forced landing at night on the rip-swept open sea off the Katama beach.
 

1946

February 22, 1946

Two Fliers Lost: First Fatality Since War, Off Cape Pogue

Vineyard Gazette
Aircraft accidents
United States Navy
Two Navy fliers lost their lives off Cape Pogue soon after 10 o’clock Tuesday morning when their dive bomber, in which they were making practice dives at a target, failed to come out of a dive and plunged into the sea. They were from Quonset Naval Air Station.
 

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