Air New England Flight 248

1979 aviation accident

41°41′25.62″N 70°14′30.95″W / 41.6904500°N 70.2419306°W / 41.6904500; -70.2419306AircraftAircraft typede Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300OperatorAir New EnglandRegistrationN383EX^[1]Flight originLaGuardia Airport, New York, New York, United StatesDestinationBarnstable Municipal Airport, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United StatesPassengers8Crew2Fatalities1 (Pilot)^[2]Injuries4 or 5Survivors9

Air New England Flight 248 was a De Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter that crashed on approach to Barnstable Municipal Airport in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, on June 17, 1979. All of those on the aircraft survived with the exception of the pilot, who was killed instantly.

Flight designations, route, and crew

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 the Yarmouth Port section of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northeast of Barnstable Municipal Airport while on an instrument landing system (ILS) approach.^[2] The crash occurred on the end of a flight from LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York. The aircraft, piloted by Air New England co-founder George Parmenter, was several miles short of the runway.

Crash

The aircraft crashed in the middle of Camp Greenough, a heavily wooded Boy 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 the Mid 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]

Book

In June 2009, author Robert Sabbag, one of the passengers on board Air New England Flight 248, released a book called Down Around Midnight (Viking Adult, ISBN 978-0-670-02102-4), a first-hand account of the crash from survivors and rescuers.^[4]

References

^ "FAA Registry (N383EX)". Federal Aviation Administration.
^ ^a ^b "Accident Details". Air Crash Info.com. Retrieved 2009-06-16.
^ "Memories of 1979 plane crash linger on | CapeCodOnline.com". Archived from the original on 2010-03-15. Retrieved 2018-10-05.
^ Sabbag, Robert (11 June 2009). Down Around Midnight: A Memoir of Crash and Survival. Viking Adult. ISBN 978-0670021024.

External links

Final accident report - National Transportation Safety Board - Copy at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Accident Details
Accident description

Aviation accidents and incidents in 1979 (1979)

Jan 30

Varig Flight 967

Feb 12

Air Rhodesia Flight 827

Feb 17

Air New Zealand Flight 4374

Mar 14

Alia Flight 600

Mar 17

Aeroflot Flight 1691

Mar 26

1979 Interflug Ilyushin Il-18 crash

Mar 29

Quebecair Flight 255

Apr 4

TWA Flight 841

Apr 23

SAETA Flight 011

May 25

American Airlines Flight 191

May 30

Downeast Airlines Flight 46

Jun 17

Air New England Flight 248

Jun 20

American Airlines Flight 293

Jul 11

Garuda Fokker F28 crash

Jul 26

Lufthansa Cargo Flight 527

Jul 31

Dan-Air Flight 0034

Aug 11

Dniprodzerzhynsk mid-air collision

Aug 29

Aeroflot Flight 5484

Sep 14

Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 12

Oct 7

Swissair Flight 316

Oct 31

Western Airlines Flight 2605

Nov 15

American Airlines Flight 444

Nov 26

Pakistan International Airlines Flight 740

Nov 28

Air New Zealand Flight 901

Dec 18

Mosfellsheiði air crashes

Dec 23

Turkish Airlines Ankara crash

1978 ◄ ► 1980

v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in the United States and U.S. territories in the 1970s
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1975	Golden West Airlines Flight 261 Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 Wien Air Alaska Flight 99 Overseas National Airways Flight 032
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This list is incomplete. ALM Flight 980 ditched in waters near St. Croix. Flying Tiger Line Flight 45 occurred in the United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands