Londonderry, N. H. – February 8, 1972

Londonderry, New Hampshire – February 8, 1972 

     On February 8, 1972, a lone 28-year-old woman from Andover, Massachusetts, was making an instrument landing approach to Grenier Field in Manchester in a single engine Cherokee.  It was snowing and darkness was falling.  As the plane dropped low to the ground it caught a wire and crash landed in an apple orchard off High Range Road.  The plane came to rest after plowing through several trees and losing a wing.  There was no fire. The pilot was transported to a medical facility with non-life-threatening injuries. 

     Source:

     Derry News, “Pilot Escapes When Plane Rips Into L’derry Orchard”, February, 10, 1972.    

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