Nantucket, Massachusetts – January 11, 1970
At 9:29 a.m., a U.S. Marine Corps Beechcraft TC-45J training aircraft took off from the South Weymouth Naval Air Station near Boston for a routine training flight to Nantucket island. There were two men aboard. The pilot was Captain Robert Girouard, 33. The other officer was Captain Almon F. Townsend, 30.
The airplane made a safe landing at Nantucket Airport and took off again at 11:00 a.m. Shortly after takeoff, just as the plane reached an altitude of 1,000 feet, the engines suddenly lost all power. Captain Girouard was able to bring the aircraft in for a crash landing in an open field near the end of the runway. There was no fire, and neither of the men were hurt.
Source:
Providence Journal, “2 Marines Escape Training Plane Crash In Mass.”, January 12, 1973
