Passenger crash-lands airplane in US’ Massachusetts as pilot faces medical emergency

By Associated Press: A passenger of a small airplane took the controls and crash landed on a Massachusetts island on Saturday after the pilot suffered a medical emergency, police stated.

The crash occurred on Saturday afternoon close to Martha’s Vineyard Airport in West Tisbury, Massachusetts. The 79-year-old male pilot suffered the emergency in the course of the airplane’s closing strategy, Massachusetts State Police stated.

State police stated the crash “resulted in a hard landing outside the runway that caused the aircraft’s left wing to break in half.” Authorities didn’t title both particular person on the airplane and stated each have been transported to a hospital.

The pilot was then flown to a Boston hospital in life-threatening situation. The feminine passenger was unhurt and launched from a neighborhood hospital, police stated.

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The 2006 Piper Meridian airplane departed from Westchester County, New York, earlier Saturday afternoon. The pilot and passenger are Connecticut residents, police stated.

The crash is being investigated by state police, National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration. An FAA spokesperson stated the NTSB is in command of the investigation.

The plane was eliminated and brought to a safe location on the airport and the crash scene was cleared, state police stated.

The crash occurred nearly 24 years to the day after a Piper crash killed John F. Kennedy Jr., his spouse Carolyn Bessette and her sister Lauren Bessette off Martha’s Vineyard.

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