Air New England Flight 248 was a
De Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter that crashed on approach to
Barnstable Municipal Airport in
Barnstable County,
Massachusetts, on June 17, 1979. All of those on the aircraft survived with the exception of the pilot, who was killed instantly.
Flight designations, route, and crew
At 10:48 p.m.
EDT on 17 June 1979, Flight 248, with eight passengers and a crew of two, crashed in a heavily wooded area in the
Yarmouth Port
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section of
Yarmouth
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, Massachusetts, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northeast of Barnstable Municipal Airport while on an
instrument landing system (ILS) approach.
The crash occurred on the end of a flight from
LaGuardia Airport in
New York
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. The aircraft, piloted by
Air New England
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co-founder George Parmenter, was several miles short of the runway.
Crash
The aircraft crashed in the middle of Camp Greenough, a heavily wooded
Boy Scouts of America camp. Parmenter was killed in the crash. The co-pilot and several passengers were injured.
An uninjured passenger managed to make her way through thick brush to the
Mid Cape Highway (Route 6), and flagged down a passing car. The motorist drove her to the airport, where she alerted authorities to the crash. Rescuers, with the aid of a brush-clearing truck, were able to cut a swath through the brush to the crash site and aid the survivors.
Book
In June 2009, author
Robert Sabbag
Robert Sabbag is an American author and journalist. His books include '' Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade,'' and the memoir ''Down Around Midnight,'' about a fatal plane crash he survived in 1979.
Personal
Sabbag, the son of a car ...
, one of the passengers on board Air New England Flight 248, released a book called ''Down Around Midnight'' (Viking Adult, ), a first-hand account of the crash from survivors and rescuers.
See also
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Aviation safety
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Emergency landing
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List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft
References
External links
Final accident report-
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