A 79-year-old Connecticut pilot suffered a medical emergency while descending into Martha’s Vineyard, so the female passenger took over the controls and crash landed the plane.
A small plane crash-landed near a runway at Martha’s Vineyard
The female passenger quickly took over the controls and tried to land the 2006 Piper Meridian airplane, resulting in a hard landing in a grassy area near the runway.caused the plane’s left wing to snap in half. The aircraft departed from Westchester, New York, earlier in the afternoon. Both occupants are Connecticut residents.State police, FAA and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash, though the NTSB is in charge of the investigation.Officials with the NTSB and state police did not immediately respond to inquiries about the crash from Fox News Digital.
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