Posted on 06/05/2007 3:20:02 PM PDT by MoralSense
A single-engine, four-seat plane on approach to Norwood Memorial Airport crashed this morning in a heavily wooded area between Rte. 95 and Neponset Street in Canton, killing the female pilot.
Agnes Elizabeth Imregh, 57, of Dover, MA was killed on contact following the crash, according to investigators.
Canton Police Chief Ken Berkowitz said the department began receiving calls around 10:20 a.m. from witnesses on I-95 reporting a plane over the woods was sputtering and may have gone down.
Norwood Police spokesman Paul Bishop said Norwood airport officials, who had been in contact with the plane upon approach, called Norwood police after losing contact with the plane.
“The plane was about to land and they lost communication,” Bishop said, who also said the pilot did not indicate there was a problem prior to losing contact with the air traffic control tower.
But Bishop said Norwood and state police did get calls from drivers on Rte. 95 claiming the plane appeared to be in trouble.
Canton, Norwood and state officials responded to the scene, and Berkowitz said the plane was located within about 20 minutes with the help of a helicopter.
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Bummer, nice airplane.
This is what passes for writing these days. Poison kills on contact, air crashes kill on impact. The spell check doesn't give a clue, and the grammar check isn't much better. What a putz.
RIP.
One approach to OWD crosses Route 95 and the Neponset River. You can see the REIL and VASI from the highway. She did not make it as far as the highway. Before the highway and the river is a site that long ago used to be an airport and which is now used for sewer sludge treatment. About 2+ miles out is a train station. It looks like she lost it just after the old airport site and came down in a scrubby wooded wasteland just before the river, maybe a mile and a half short of 35.
One of the radio reports quote someone as saying the plane was “sputtering” and that “one wing dropped” and then it went down. The weather was filthy. She may have been trying to make a near-dead stick landing, and tried to execute a turn — low wing stalled, down she goes.
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