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Yeah, I know. Sigh. They seem to be landing more on houses and highways.
That airport at Leominster Mass seems like the best bet. Small plane crashes in Leominster By Boston.com Staff And Associated Press | October 26, 2004 At least one person was killed when an ultralight plane crashed into a machine shop in Leominster Tuesday afternoon, authorities said. The plane crashed into the R&S Machine Shop on Monarch Street, which is adjacent to the Fitchburg Municipal Airport. The person killed is believed to be the pilot, said Sgt. Scott Range of the state police. A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said the experimental aircraft was registered to Andrew San Clemente, of Shrewsbury. There was no immediate answer at the R&S Machine Shop, which caught fire briefly, according to Jim Peters of the FAA. Monarch Street resident Roland Rivard, 39, said the fire was extinguished by about 4:20 p.m. He said most of the five employees of the machine shop had left for the day before the crash. "The people working in the shop had just gone home," Rivard said, noting that the workers typically leave at about 3:30 p.m. Rivard, who did not witness the crash, said one of his neighbors tried to help the pilot before fire engulfed the plane. It was the seventh plane crash to occur in or near the airport in the last seven years. The series of crashes have claimed a total of 12 lives. On June 2 of this year a Fitchburg father and his 25-year-old daughter were killed when their plane crashed into woods about three miles southeast of the airport. In 2003 a plane occupied by a New York developer and philanthropist crashed into an industrial building near the airport killing six occupants of the eight-seated, twin-engine Beechcraftt. A 13-year-old girl aboard the plane of M. Anthony Fisher survived the crash. On Oct. 31, 1997 a flight instructor and his student were killed when their twin-engine Piper Apache crashed in a yard on Longedge Avenue which is in a residential area near the airport. There were also air crashes in Leominster on Feb. 11, 1999 and Dec. 22, 1999 that resulted in deaths. The October mishap that year was a mid-air collision in which a Worcester inventor was killed. In July of 2000 a plane went off the runway at Fitchburg airport but the pilot was not injured. |
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