I. M. Esperto
14th Jul 2002, 20:23
2 hurt when plane crashes in Marlboro
Published in the Asbury Park Press 7/14/02
STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
MARLBORO -- Two people were injured, one severely, when a single-engine aircraft taking off from Marlboro Airport crashed in a wooded area about 200 feet from the runway yesterday afternoon.
Little information about the victims, who were taken to Jersey Shore Medical Center in Neptune, was immediately available.
The pilot, a 41-year-old from Middletown, was in "very critical condition" last night with internal trauma and multiple fractures, said Stephen Jones, a spokesman for the New Jersey State Police.
The passenger suffered only minor injuries, Jones said.
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Holly Baker said the single-engine plane, which had a tail number of N69GC, went down just after 3 p.m. The crash site was just west of Route 79 near Marlboro Airport, she said.
Known as a Yak-52, this style of fixed-wing aircraft was originally designed and built as a military trainer in the former Soviet Union. The airplanes are now used for sport flying, aerobatic performances and pilot competitions.
Baker said FAA investigators from Teterboro were at the crash scene yesterday, and the investigation would be handed over to the National Transportation Safety Board today.
Jones of the State Police said a preliminary investigation indicated that the plane's engine failed.
As emergency workers and investigators examined the accident scene, dozens of area residents, curious about the crash, came to the airport. However, authorities kept them far away from the accident scene.
Al Talker, 45, of Castlehill Drive, who said he has 25 years experience flying airplanes, was among the onlookers.
"When you are learning how to fly, you never turn (when taking off). You keep going straight," Talker said.
At the south end of the runway there is a row of houses, and toward the west side of the highway there is a school, the Marlboro Early Learning Center.
Talker speculated that the airplane's pilot may have tried to turn to avoid the houses before the crash.
The crash site appeared to be off the southwest corner of the airfield.
Firefighters with the New Jersey Forest Service, Marlboro police, State Police, and officials with the state Department of Transportation Aeronautics Unit were all at the crash site.
Marlboro Airport opened on Route 79 in the Morganville section in 1954.
Last year, on Aug. 26, Patrick Cook, 23, of Spotswood, and Cook's friend Michael Logan were killed, when Cook, days after earning his pilot's license, crashed his Cessna 172-SP just north of the airport in a meadow near Marlboro Memorial Cemetery.
Written from reports by Asbury Park Press staff writers Rodney Point-Du-Jour and John A. Harnes, and The Associated Press.
Published in the Asbury Park Press 7/14/02
STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
MARLBORO -- Two people were injured, one severely, when a single-engine aircraft taking off from Marlboro Airport crashed in a wooded area about 200 feet from the runway yesterday afternoon.
Little information about the victims, who were taken to Jersey Shore Medical Center in Neptune, was immediately available.
The pilot, a 41-year-old from Middletown, was in "very critical condition" last night with internal trauma and multiple fractures, said Stephen Jones, a spokesman for the New Jersey State Police.
The passenger suffered only minor injuries, Jones said.
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Holly Baker said the single-engine plane, which had a tail number of N69GC, went down just after 3 p.m. The crash site was just west of Route 79 near Marlboro Airport, she said.
Known as a Yak-52, this style of fixed-wing aircraft was originally designed and built as a military trainer in the former Soviet Union. The airplanes are now used for sport flying, aerobatic performances and pilot competitions.
Baker said FAA investigators from Teterboro were at the crash scene yesterday, and the investigation would be handed over to the National Transportation Safety Board today.
Jones of the State Police said a preliminary investigation indicated that the plane's engine failed.
As emergency workers and investigators examined the accident scene, dozens of area residents, curious about the crash, came to the airport. However, authorities kept them far away from the accident scene.
Al Talker, 45, of Castlehill Drive, who said he has 25 years experience flying airplanes, was among the onlookers.
"When you are learning how to fly, you never turn (when taking off). You keep going straight," Talker said.
At the south end of the runway there is a row of houses, and toward the west side of the highway there is a school, the Marlboro Early Learning Center.
Talker speculated that the airplane's pilot may have tried to turn to avoid the houses before the crash.
The crash site appeared to be off the southwest corner of the airfield.
Firefighters with the New Jersey Forest Service, Marlboro police, State Police, and officials with the state Department of Transportation Aeronautics Unit were all at the crash site.
Marlboro Airport opened on Route 79 in the Morganville section in 1954.
Last year, on Aug. 26, Patrick Cook, 23, of Spotswood, and Cook's friend Michael Logan were killed, when Cook, days after earning his pilot's license, crashed his Cessna 172-SP just north of the airport in a meadow near Marlboro Memorial Cemetery.
Written from reports by Asbury Park Press staff writers Rodney Point-Du-Jour and John A. Harnes, and The Associated Press.