Yesterday was pretty busy at work since it was the second sunny day in about a month, so all day I was running around fueling different planes. Around 2:00 I was in the line office filing some papers when my co-worker takes a call. Apparently the U.S. Airforce was looking for all the information they could get on a plane based on our field that had taken off around 12:00, had not been heard from since, and was now transmitting a distress beacon via the ELT (Emergency Locator Transmitter, it sends out a beacon when there has been sufficent force put on the aircraft, like crashing for example.) So we tell them all we know, put them in ocntact with the control tower and go about our day. Today, I'm looking around on news sites when I find the story beneath this post. I recognised the plane in the picture. It belongs to a flight instructor at my school. What's more, I actually personally fueled that plane up and made small talk with the pilot and passengers before they left. It's kinda freaky thinking back to standing on the ladder fueling over this plane that is now a wreckage somewhere in Massachusetts. I never would have guessed what their fate would be. Thankfully, however, they're all safe. Creepy shit though.
Where they crashed
Mike Murphy of Murphys Salvage guides the tail of a plane that made an emergency landing in a cranberry bog as it is lowered back on the ground off his ramp truck.
Rochester Police and Fire Dept. get a closer look at a single engine plane that made an emergency landing in a cranberry bog off Dexter Lane in Rochester.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/region … p;srvc=rss
http://www.wbz.com/pages/4792778.php?co … d=4337254#
Article wrote:
Small plane lands in MA cranberry bog
Four people on a small single-engine turboprop plane escaped serious injury when it crashed into a Rochester cranberry bog.
Fire Chief Scott Weigel tells The Standard Times of New Bedford the pilot and three passengers suffered bruises and abrasions when the Cessna 172 crash landed into the bog at Great Bear Farms just before 1 p.m. on Sunday. The two men and two men were treated at Tobey Hospital in Wareham. Their names were not immediately released.
Authorities say the plane, bound for Martha's Vineyard from Nashua, N.H., experienced engine problems. The plane suffered damage to its undercarriage, propellor and nose section.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating. The plane is registered to New England Flight Operations LLC of Bedford, N.H.
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Where they crashed
Mike Murphy of Murphys Salvage guides the tail of a plane that made an emergency landing in a cranberry bog as it is lowered back on the ground off his ramp truck.
Rochester Police and Fire Dept. get a closer look at a single engine plane that made an emergency landing in a cranberry bog off Dexter Lane in Rochester.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/region … p;srvc=rss
http://www.wbz.com/pages/4792778.php?co … d=4337254#
