 A Twin Otter similar to the accident aircraft | |
| Occurrence | |
|---|---|
| Date | June 17, 1979 |
| Summary | Controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) |
| Site | Camp Greenough,Yarmouth Port,Yarmouth,Massachusetts,United States 41°41′25.62″N70°14′30.95″W / 41.6904500°N 70.2419306°W /41.6904500; -70.2419306 |
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| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 |
| Operator | Air New England |
| Registration | N383EX[1] |
| Flight origin | LaGuardia Airport,New York,New York, United States |
| Destination | Barnstable Municipal Airport,Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States |
| Passengers | 8 |
| Crew | 2 |
| Fatalities | 1 (Pilot)[2] |
| Injuries | 4 or 5 |
| Survivors | 9 |
Air New England Flight 248 was aDe Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter that crashed on approach toBarnstable Municipal Airport inBarnstable County,Massachusetts, on June 17, 1979. All of those on the aircraft survived with the exception of the pilot, who was killed instantly.
At 10:48 p.m.EDT on 17 June 1979, Flight 248, with eight passengers and a crew of two, crashed in a heavily wooded area in theYarmouth Port section ofYarmouth, Massachusetts, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northeast of Barnstable Municipal Airport while on aninstrument landing system (ILS) approach.[2] The crash occurred on the end of a flight fromLaGuardia Airport inNew York,New York. The aircraft, piloted byAir New England co-founder George Parmenter, was several miles short of the runway.
The aircraft crashed in the middle of Camp Greenough, a heavily woodedBoy Scouts of America camp. Parmenter was killed in the crash. The co-pilot and several passengers were injured.
An uninjured passenger managed to make her way through thick brush to theMid Cape Highway (Route 6), and flagged down a passing car. The motorist drove her to the airport, where she alerted authorities to the crash. Rescuers, with the aid of a brush-clearing truck, were able to cut a swath through the brush to the crash site and aid the survivors.[3]
In June 2009, authorRobert Sabbag, one of the passengers on board Air New England Flight 248, released a book calledDown Around Midnight (Viking Adult,ISBN 978-0-670-02102-4), a first-hand account of the crash from survivors and rescuers.[4]