Provincetown, Massachusetts – February 21, 1961
On February 21, 1961, Manuel Phillips was piloting a small private plane over the Provincetown area while his passenger, John D. Bell, was taking photographs, when the plane suddenly went down nose first into the water just off Long Point. Both men were rescued and neither was seriously hurt.
Bell had been a staff photographer for the Falmouth Enterprise from November, 1955, until the summer of 1957.
Source: Falmouth Enterprise, “Photographer Hurt In Airplane Crash”, February 24, 1961