Warwick, Rhode Island – May 18, 1964
On the evening of May 18, 1964, a student pilot in a single-engine plane was on a solo flight. As he was approaching to land he crashed on a grassy hill area behind the state highway garage on Lincoln Avenue. The plane flipped onto its back and continued to skid on its roof for 120 feet before coming to rest in underbrush. The pilot was not seriously injured and was transported to Kent County Hospital.
The pilot later told investigators that he’d taken off at 5:20 p.m. As he was returning to the airport, while still about eight miles away, he contacted the tower and asked for permission to land. The tower told him to radio back when he was three miles out. When he was about three miles north-west of the airport the plane lost power and he attempted an emergency landing.
Source:
Evening Bulletin, “Private Plane Crash Probed”, May 19, 1964, Pg. 9.
