I. M. Esperto
11th May 2002, 16:11
Note the ages.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-licras0511.story?coll=ny%2Dl
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By Mitchell Freedman and Samuel Bruchey
Staff Writers
May 11, 2002
A small plane whose pilot was practicing takeoffs and landings at Gabreski
Airport in Westhampton crashed Friday morning, injuring a student pilot and
his instructor.
State Police said the plane, a single-engine Cessna 210 that was based at
Republic Airport in Farmingdale, crashed shortly before 10 a.m. near Meeting
House Road, just outside the Village of Quogue and just south of the
airport.
Officials did not immediately say who was at the controls of the light plane
when it crashed.
The flight instructor, David Zeidler, 73, of Long Beach Road, Oceanside, was
airlifted by Suffolk Police helicopter to Stony Brook University Hospital
with a head injury, police said.
Hospital officials said he was listed in serious but stable condition.
The student pilot, Edward Pagan, 76, of Gnarled Hollow Road, Setauket, was
taken by ambulance to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital in East Patchogue, where
he was treated for a back injury and later released.
A spokeswoman for the county-owned airport said the pilot was practicing
touch-and-go maneuvers, simulating landings and takeoffs, just before the
crash.
The control tower operator called police after radio contact with the plane
was broken off, but did not witness the crash, the spokeswoman said.
There was no immediate indication on what caused the plane to go down,
although at least one witness told investigators that they heard the engine
sputter as it was flying low, shortly before the crash.
State Police and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate
to determine the cause of the accident.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-licras0511.story?coll=ny%2Dl
inews%2Dheadlines
By Mitchell Freedman and Samuel Bruchey
Staff Writers
May 11, 2002
A small plane whose pilot was practicing takeoffs and landings at Gabreski
Airport in Westhampton crashed Friday morning, injuring a student pilot and
his instructor.
State Police said the plane, a single-engine Cessna 210 that was based at
Republic Airport in Farmingdale, crashed shortly before 10 a.m. near Meeting
House Road, just outside the Village of Quogue and just south of the
airport.
Officials did not immediately say who was at the controls of the light plane
when it crashed.
The flight instructor, David Zeidler, 73, of Long Beach Road, Oceanside, was
airlifted by Suffolk Police helicopter to Stony Brook University Hospital
with a head injury, police said.
Hospital officials said he was listed in serious but stable condition.
The student pilot, Edward Pagan, 76, of Gnarled Hollow Road, Setauket, was
taken by ambulance to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital in East Patchogue, where
he was treated for a back injury and later released.
A spokeswoman for the county-owned airport said the pilot was practicing
touch-and-go maneuvers, simulating landings and takeoffs, just before the
crash.
The control tower operator called police after radio contact with the plane
was broken off, but did not witness the crash, the spokeswoman said.
There was no immediate indication on what caused the plane to go down,
although at least one witness told investigators that they heard the engine
sputter as it was flying low, shortly before the crash.
State Police and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate
to determine the cause of the accident.