Middlebury, Connecticut – January 11, 1975
At 9:20 a.m. on the morning of January 11, 1975, a 52-year-old man took off from Meriden-Wallingford Airport in a single-engine Cessna 210. His destination was Waterbury-Oxford Airport. While in-route the aircraft encountered low overcast conditions with low visibility. At about 9:45 a.m., as the aircraft was making its final approach to land, it struck some tree tops before crashing into a cornfield in a residential area of Middlebury. The pilot was killed instantly.
Sources:
Hartford Courant, “Man Killed As Plane Crashes In Field”, January 12, 1975
Westerly Sun, (R.I.), “Second Pilot Dies In Conn. Crash”, January 12, 1975, page 9.
