Massachusetts

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    SIAI-Marchetti Makes Controlled Crash Landing at Fitchburg Municipal Airport

    A SIAI-Marchetti high-performance aircraft made a controlled crash landing at Fitchburg Municipal Airport in Massachusetts, on June 1, due to faulty landing gear.

    All three people aboard, including two children aged 7 and 8 and the pilot, escaped unhurt.

    The pilot circled for about half an hour to lose as much fuel as he could to avoid the possibility of fire in case of crash.

    Firefighters from Fitchburg and Leominster placed fire engines on both ends of the runway and in the middle and had two ambulances ready to meet any emergency situation.

    According to an eye witness and fellow pilot Loy Riley of Worcester, who has been a pilot for 30 years, “the landing was as good as they could have hoped for.”

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    Massachusetts Plane Crash Kills 7

    A Gulfstream IV aircraft caught fire in the air at around 9:40 p.m on May 31 and went down in Hanscom Field, Massachusetts, about 20 miles northwest of Boston.

    The plane left Hanscom Field for Atlantic City International Airport but came down shortly after taking off.

    There were seven people aboard the plane at the time of accident; all of them were killed when it erupted into a fireball 60 feet in the air.

    The victims included Lewis Katz, 72, a Philadelphia media mogul, and former owner of the New Jersey Devils and New Jersey Nets, and Anne Leeds – the wife of a municipal New Jersey politician. The names of other victims have not so far been released by the authorities.

    The National Transportation Safety Board has started an investigation to determine the reasons of the plane crash.