Brooklyn, Connecticut – December 26, 1977
On December 26, 1977, a Piper Cherokee with three people aboard was passing over Brooklyn, Connecticut, approaching Danielson Airport in the neighboring town of Killingly. When the plane was about 2,000 yards from the runway, it fell in a wooded section on the Brooklyn side of the town line.
A 54-year-old man was killed in the crash, the other two persons aboard were injured.
Source: New York Times, “One Killed, 3 Hurt In Connecticut Crashes Of Two Small Planes”, December 27, 1977 (The headline refers to another crash earlier that same day where two men were inured when their small plane crashed just after takeoff at Tweed-New Haven Airport.)