The pilot of a small plane fell ill during the flight, but a passenger took matters into his own hands and landed the vehicle, albeit very difficult and dangerously. Authorities said a passenger took control, causing a crash landing at Martha’s Vineyard airport without landing gear. The incident occurred at the airport on Martha’s Vineyard, an island in Dukes County, Massachusetts (USA). The plane, a six-seat Piper Meridian Turboprop, departed Westchester, New York, in the afternoon. It was supposed to be a pleasant trip, but just before the end of the itinerary, an accident was about to turn a pleasant trip into a tragedy.
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The West Tisbury Police Department said in a statement that the pilot of the plane became ill as it approached Martha’s Vineyard airport. A 68-year-old female passenger later took control and her plane crashed into grass near a runway. State police said the hard landing caused the plane’s left wing to split in two. While the woman was slightly injured, the pilot was ejected from the plane and taken to a hospital in Boston in serious condition.
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They are investigating the crash, as reported by the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board. cnn.
The incident on the eve of the other Martha’s Vineyard crash in 1999
There is another curious fact about the accident: It happened in 1999, on the eve of the 24th anniversary of the accident in which the son of the former US president, John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and sister-in-law died. , also near Marthas’Vineyard. In fact, on July 16 of that year, a Piper Saratoga plane, piloted by Kennedy, carrying his wife Carolyn Bessette and sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the airport of the last crash.
Fortunately, the results were the opposite. Subsequent investigation concluded that Kennedy, who could only fly in clear weather, suffered from “spatial disorientation” that caused him to lose control of the aircraft when flying over the ocean at night.
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