T. F. Green Airport – January 22, 1966
Warwick, Rhode Island
On January 22, 1966, a Piper Cherokee owned by the Newport Air Taxi Co. of Newport, R.I., was coming in for a landing at T. F. Green Airport when it was involved in a mid-air collision with a Cessna 150 owned by Wille Aero Inc. The Cessna had an instructor and student aboard, and was making touch and go landings at the time of the accident. The pilot of the Cherokee was alone.
The two planes collided about 100 feet above the airfield and came down just inside the airport fence near a residential area at the southern end of the airport. Everyone aboard both airplanes was killed instantly.
Source:
The Boston Sunday Globe, “Planes Collide, 3 Die”, January 23, 1966, page 40.