Falmouth, Massachusetts – August 5, 1964
At 12:45 A.M. on the morning of August 5, 1964, a twin-engine Piper Aztec with two men aboard left Boston bound for Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard. The pilot was a 38-year-old man from Medfield, Massachusetts, and the passenger was a 21-year-old man from Chappaquiddick, an island next to Edgartown.
At 1:58 a.m., while passing over the town of Falmouth, the aircraft crashed in the Hatchville section of town about a quarter mile west of Sandwich Road and south of Deepwood Road. The weather at the time was clear.
A local resident later told investigators that he’d heard the plane’s motor sputtering prior to hearing a crash and immediately called the police to report the incident. It took police and firemen about a half hour to locate and reach the wreckage at which time they found both occupants deceased.
Source:
Falmouth Enterprise, “Foster L. Silva Dies In Crash Of Plane”, August 7, 1964
