Agawam, Massachusetts – August 4, 1952
On August 4, 1952, a lone pilot took off from Bridgeport, Connecticut, in a four-seat aircraft bound for Turner’s Falls, Massachusetts. While over the Massachusetts area he encountered deteriorating weather conditions and decided to make an unscheduled landing at the Eastern States Exposition Fairgrounds in Springfield, but was unable to do so. He therefore made an emergency landing in a cornfield in Agawam, After cutting a fifty-foot swath through the corn the plane flipped onto its back.
There was damage to the aircraft but the pilot was not injured.
Source:
Providence Journal, “Safe In Plane Crash”, August 5, 1952, pg. 15.
