from author and historian Jim Ignasher
Boston, Massachusetts – October 24, 1924
On October 24, 1924, two men took off from East Boston Airport in a small plane. Just after becoming airborne and reaching an altitude of 300 feet, the plane suddenly lost power and nose-dived into the mud flats off World Memorial Park. The flats were covered by a foot of water at the time. The plane was wrecked and the occupants were treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
Source:
Woonsocket Call, “Two Injured When Airplane Crashes”, October 25, 1924
Boston, Massachusetts – May 17, 1928
On May 17, 1928, a pilot instructor and a student took off from the East Boston Airport for an instructional flight. Shortly after take off, while at an altitude of 500 feet, the engine suddenly stopped. The plane crashed into the mud flats near some railroad tracks between the Harbor View and Maverick stations. The plane was wrecked and both men were injured.
The type of plane was not stated in the press; only that it belonged to the Boston Airport Corporation.
Source:
(Prov.) Evening Bulletin, “Flier, Student Injured In Boston plane Crash”, May 18, 1929.
East Boston Airport – January 10, 1938
On January 10, 1938, a 25-year-old student pilot from Malden, Massachusetts, was killed when his airplane crashed at East Boston Airport on a training flight. The plane crashed a few minutes after take off when it dove to the ground from an altitude of 150 feet. No further details are known.
Source: Nashua Telegraph, “Student Flier Killed In Crash”, photo with caption, January 11, 1938, page 1.
Boston, Massachusetts – July 23, 1925
On July 23, 1925, a small plane carrying two men crashed just after take-off from East Boston Airport. Witnesses said the aircraft suddenly went into a nose dive and came down on the railroad tracks belonging to the Boston, Revere Beach, & Lynn Railroad.
The pilot, Mark C. Hogue, 29, was killed instantly. The passenger, George Burroughs, 50, died on the way to the hospital.
Hogue was a former WWI veteran, having served as a Lieutenant in the Army Air Service. After the war he flew for the U.S. Mail as an airmail pilot, before becoming a commercial pilot. He was also an aerial photographer, and had photographed many estates of the rich and famous on Long Island, New York.
Updated June 12, 2017
Lt. Hogue had survived an earlier plane crash in Vernon, Connecticut on August 8, 1920.
Sources:
New York Times, “Two Die In Boston Plane”, July 24, 1925
The Daily Kennebec Journal, (Maine) “Air-pilot And Passenger Killed In Fall Near Boston”, July 24, 1925
Hartford Courant, “Mark Hogue Has Narrow Escape”, August 9, 1920
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