Derry, N. H. – August 1, 1968

Derry, New Hampshire – August 1, 1968

     At about 7:30 a.m. on the morning of August 1, 1968, a 41-year-old man was piloting a Piper Cub crop dusting aircraft over a farm in Derry.  His job that morning was to spray insect repellent on corn crops at a farm on Old Auburn Road.  As he was making a low “run” over the fields, the plane’s engine suddenly quit and the plane crashed nose-first in a nearby hay field killing the pilot. 

     Source:

     Derry News, “Two Die In Separate Tragedies Here”,  August 8, 1968.  (The article also mentioned a DPW worker who was killed in a work related incident.) 

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