Airplane Accidents Massachusetts

Two flatbed trucks under police escort transported wreckage from the John F. Kennedy Jr. plane crash to a Coast Guard hangar here, where it will be examined in detail by federal investigators. Kennedy's single-engine Piper Saratoga, described as "twisted metal," arrived late Friday night, a Coast Guard official said.

The pilot who flawlessly ditched a small plane carrying his family and neighbors into the sea also led them safely to a life raft as the aircraft sank in Massachusetts Bay, passengers said Monday. Pilot Dana Lake and his neighbor, James Comosa, managed to prepare their wives, Lake's three daughters and Comosa's two sons for Sunday's emergency landing. "Dana kept his cool through the whole thing. He told us exactly what to do. The little girls were freaking out," said Jamie Comosa, 14.

Search crews frantically looking for survivors or significant wreckage of the small plane carrying John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and his sister-in-law found neither for a second day Sunday, and gave up on finding any of the three alive.

A plane made an emergency ocean landing with nine people on board, and all were rescued, officials said. The twin-engine Piper Navajo went down about five to seven miles east of Boston Harbor. Two families on board, including five children ages 7 to 14, were rescued and suffered only minor injuries, a Coast Guard spokeswoman said. The pilot reported fuel problems shortly before he brought the plane down, the spokeswoman said.

The Egyptian government has agreed to pay $10.6 million of the $17 million in investigation costs borne by U.S. agencies after last year's crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 off the New England coast. Egypt's action comes as the National Transportation Safety Board is finishing its inquiry into the disaster, which killed all 217 people aboard on Oct. 31. The Boeing 767 had taken off from Los Angeles and stopped in New York before departing on its ill-fated transatlantic voyage.

The nose of a Trump Shuttle jet skidded down a runway, throwing out a spray of sparks and smoke, after it landed Thursday with its front landing gear still retracted. There were no injuries among the 47 passengers and seven crew members on the Boeing 727, Trump Shuttle officials said. "It was like a roller coaster ride like at Coney Island, and I enjoyed that. You prepare yourself for the worst. But it was really just like a rough regular landing," passenger Glenn Porter of New York said.

Rescuers desperately scoured the ocean off Martha's Vineyard into the night Saturday in the fading hope that they might find John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and her sister after the single-engine plane he was piloting disappeared and plunged into the Atlantic en route here. The son of the slain 35th president of the United States, a relatively inexperienced pilot, had planned to stop briefly on the island before heading on to nearby Cape Cod for a family wedding scheduled for Saturday.

They came for a wedding, but soon, on Saturday, the atmosphere at the Kennedy compound here was much more like a wake. "How much more can a family take?" wondered Joan Greim, who for years has worked at the John F. Kennedy Hyannis Museum. As family and friends converged on Cape Cod for what was to be by Kennedy standards a small wedding--about 275 people--they were greeted with the somber news that the private plane carrying 38-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr.

The pilot who flawlessly ditched a small plane carrying his family and neighbors into the sea also led them safely to a life raft as the aircraft sank in Massachusetts Bay, passengers said Monday. Pilot Dana Lake and his neighbor, James Comosa, managed to prepare their wives, Lake's three daughters and Comosa's two sons for Sunday's emergency landing. "Dana kept his cool through the whole thing. He told us exactly what to do. The little girls were freaking out," said Jamie Comosa, 14.

Even as Egyptian experts arrived to help unravel the mystery of the EgyptAir Flight 990 crash, a top Justice Department official made clear Thursday that the United States will not be bound by Cairo's wishes in determining how best to move ahead with the investigation. "We are certainly going to be working with the Egyptians . . . , but I would not say anything is contingent upon the approval of the Egyptian government," said Deputy Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr.

A draft of the final U.S. report on the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 does nothing to contradict the theory that the jet was intentionally plunged into the sea, Associated Press learned. The report, which is being sent to Egyptian authorities, for the first time contains analysis of what may have caused the crash that killed all 217 people aboard, said Keith Holloway, a National Transportation Safety Board spokesman. The Boeing 767 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Nantucket, Mass., in 1999. U.

Ten federal lawsuits were filed in Los Angeles on Monday challenging the prevailing theory that a suicidal co-pilot caused the crash one year ago of an EgyptAir jetliner off the coast of Nantucket Island. The suits, filed on behalf of the families of 16 victims, name EgyptAir; Boeing, the manufacturer of the plane; and Parker-Hannifin, which designed some of the plane's flight control systems. EgyptAir's Flight 990 dived into the sea Oct.

A year ago Halloween Day, Max Bowman of Huntington Beach kissed his wife, Judith, goodbye at the airport as she headed off for an overseas trip with dear friends. And 11 hours later--"11 hours that changed my life"--he learned that her plane, EgyptAir Flight 990, had mysteriously crashed into the Atlantic, 200 miles off the coast of Nantucket, Mass. All 217 passengers and crew members were killed. Of the 100 Americans on board, 10 were from Southern California, all from Orange County.

A year ago Halloween Day, Max Bowman of Huntington Beach kissed his wife Judith goodbye at the airport as she headed off for an overseas trip with dear friends. And 11 hours later--"11 hours that changed my life"--he learned that her plane, EgyptAir Flight 990, had mysteriously crashed into the Atlantic, about 60 miles off the coast of Nantucket, Mass. All 217 passengers and crew were killed.

A year ago Halloween Day, Max Bowman of Huntington Beach kissed his wife Judith goodbye at the airport as she headed off for an overseas trip with dear friends. And 11 hours later--"11 hours that changed my life"--he learned that her plane, EgyptAir Flight 990, had mysteriously crashed into the Atlantic, about 60 miles off the coast of Nantucket, Mass. All 217 passengers and crew were killed.

The families of five Orange County residents who died in last year's crash of an EgyptAir jetliner have filed suit against the airline, alleging that pilot negligence and lax maintenance procedures contributed to the plane's plunge into the Atlantic.

A grieving Max Bowman stood alone at the altar Thursday morning and whispered goodbye to the love of his life, Judith Bowman, the woman he had exchanged wedding vows with four decades ago inside that very same Huntington Beach church.

John F. Kennedy Jr. turned down an offer by one of his flying instructors to accompany him the night of his doomed flight to Martha's Vineyard, saying that he "wanted to do it alone," federal investigators reported Thursday.

A small airplane crashed in a dense forest a mile short of the runway at Martha's Vineyard Airport in Edgartown, Mass., killing a former New Jersey legislator and three members of his family. Police said air traffic controllers lost contact with the 1977 Mitsubishi twin-engine turboprop on its final approach late Friday. Moments earlier, pilot Charles B.

John F. Kennedy Jr. turned down an offer by one of his flying instructors to accompany him the night of his doomed flight to Martha's Vineyard, saying that he "wanted to do it alone," federal investigators reported Thursday.