Commuter plane with eight aboard missing off Block Island -- The Coast Guard suspended its search Wednesday night for a plane that vanished off Block Island with eight people aboard, concluding the aircraft probably had crashed and sunk with no
Block Island Sound – November 28, 1989 - New England Aviation History On the night of November 28, 1989, a New England Airlines twin-engine, Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander aircraft, (N127JL), left Block Island Airport with a pilot, seven passengers, and two dogs aboard bound for Westerly Airport in Westerly, R I
A jet missing since 1971 was found submerged in Vermonts Lake . . . Fifty-three years after a private plane carrying five men disappeared on a snowy Vermont night, experts believe they have found the wreckage of the long lost jet in Lake Champlain The corporate jet disappeared shortly after departing the Burlington airport for Providence, Rhode Island, on Jan 27, 1971
Hero Pilot In 1989 United Crash Dies : The Two-Way : NPR Denny Fitch, seen in 2008, helped save the lives of 184 people in the crash landing of United Flight 232 on July 19, 1989 Fitch died this week after suffering from brain cancer He was 69