Sanford, Maine – September 12, 1991
On the morning of September 12, 1991, an 80-year-old pilot from Derry, New Hampshire, flew his Cessna 185 amphibian airplane to Greenville, Maine, to attend an airshow. While he was returning home that afternoon his airplane’s engine stopped. Spotting a field the pilot tried to glide to it, but fell short and crashed into a wooded area on Mount Hope in Sanford. The pilot suffered minor injuries and the crash did not deter him from later boarding a friend’s airplane to complete the trip home.
Source:
Derry News, “Eighty-Year-Old Aviator Says Plane Crash Won’t Ground Him”, September 18, 1991.