AUGUST 29, 2015
DEXTER, MAINE—
One person suffered head injuries when a small airplane practicing takeoffs crashed in a backyard near Dexter Regional Airport on Saturday, officials said.
The unidentified man was taken to Mayo Regional Hospital by ambulance. The woman, who apparently was piloting the Beechcraft 150, walked away from the crash, Dexter Fire Chief Matt Connor said.
“They took off, and it was still up here, no wind. And evidently they didn’t lift off in time and just couldn’t get enough airspeed to clear the trees,” Airport Manager Roger Nelson said Saturday. “They did veer from the airport itself, trying to find a spot where there were less trees to get through.”
The single-engine plane crashed through bushes before coming to rest about 500 feet from an Airport Road house and mobile home at about 8:45 a.m., Connor said.
One witness reported the plane flying very low, directly over the mobile home before it came down.
“It’s a miracle [man] is alive. The cockpit is pretty destroyed. The passenger side is pretty well crushed,” said 55-year-old Mike Jones of Hudson, a pilot who was working on his aircraft at the airport when he heard the crash and rushed to the scene.
The plane already had practiced one touch-and-go landing. In its second run, it landed on the airport’s 3,000-foot paved runway and turned onto the shorter grass runway to try to get into the wind and took off again, Nelson said.
“The woman in the trailer that they went right over appeared to be on full power,” Nelson said. “They clipped a bunch of hedges and nosed in head first” before the plane flipped over.
Firefighters and Maine Department of Environmental Protection workers were at the scene waiting for Federal Aviation Administration officials to approve their removing the destroyed plane and about 20 gallons of spilled aviation fuel.
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AUGUST 29, 2015
DEXTER, MAINE—
A police dispatcher says a plane with two people on board has crashed in the central Maine town of Dexter.
Police and firefighters were responding to the crash on Airport Road just before 9 a.m. Saturday
A student and an instructor were inside the plane. Officials say their injuries are non-life threatening.
Aviation fuel leaked from the plane. A hazmat crew is on scene cleaning up the fluid.
The Federal Aviation Agency says that a Beechcraft B19 crashed as it was departing Dexter Regional Airport shortly before 9 a.m.
It is unclear if anyone was injured.
The FAA and the NTSB will investigate and determine the cause of the crash.
No more information is available at this time.
Date: 29-AUG-2015
Time: -09:00
Type: 1978 Beech 19 Musketeer Sport
Owner/operator: Reg. Private
Registration: N2013G
C/n / msn: MB-903
Fatalities: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities: 0
Airplane damage: Substantial
Location: Near Dexter Regional Airport (1B0), Dexter, ME -
United States of America Phase: Take off
Nature: Training
Departure airport: Dexter Rgnl (1B0)
Destination airport:
Narrative:
The aircraft force landed to brush field terrain shortly after takeoff from Dexter Regional Airport (1B0), Dexter, Maine. The airplane came to rest inverted, sustaining substantial damage, and the two occupants onboard received undisclosed injuries.
Sources:
http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/000309492.html
https://bangordailynews.com/2015/08/29/news/penobscot/two-injured-in-dexter-plane-crash/
http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=179100
http://www.necn.com/news/new-england/Plane-Crash-Reported-in-Dexter-Maine-323313961.html
http://m.wmtw.com/news/plane-crashes-in-dexter/34992628
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=2013G
http://www.aerialperspectives.org/keyword/N2013G;beech/
Aircraft Registration (N2013G)
| Aircraft Summary | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | Owner | Airworthiness | Serial Number |
| 1978 BEECH B19 Fixed wing single engine (4 seats / 1 engine) |
PATACCHIOLA MARC BURLINGTON, MA (Partnership) |
Standard/Unknown | MB-903 |
| Engine | Weight | Speed | Mode S Code |
| LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES Horsepower: 180 (Reciprocating) |
Less than 12,500lbs | 116mph | 50314202 / A19882 |
| Registration Details | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Status | Certificate Issue Date | Airworthiness Date | Last Action Date | Expiration |
| Assigned | 2005-07-07 | 2014-12-15 | 2018-05-31 | |
| Registration History | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Owner | Location | ||
| 02-Jun-2006 | PATACCHIOLA MARC | BURLINGTON MA | ||