Suffield, Connecticut – September 6, 1964
On September 6, 1964, a husband and wife from East Greenwich, Rhode Island, took off from Agawam, Massachusetts, bound for Provincetown, Massachusetts, in their newly-purchased 1950 four-seat Avion airplane. According to a witness, as the plane was passing over the town of Suffield, it was flying very low before it went into a near vertical bank and plunged to the ground. There was no fire, only a “huge billow of dust”. Both were killed instantly.
Investigators found one of the plane’s cabin windows, a set of earphones, and a camera, about one-and-a-half miles from the crash site, but couldn’t explain the reason.
The husband had survived a previous crash on June 21, 1957. On that occasion, he was a passenger aboard a small plane that skidded off the runway while landing at Flushing Airport in New York.
Source:
Providence Journal, “E. Greenwich Couple Killed In Plane Crash”, September 7, 1964, Pg. 1.
