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Angel Flight Crash Claims Three

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Key Takeaways:

  • A Piper Seneca aircraft on a volunteer medical mission for Angel Flight Northeast crashed in Upstate New York, killing a cancer patient, his wife, and the pilot.
  • The main wreckage was recovered from a pond, which will be drained to locate the cancer patient's unrecovered body, while the NTSB investigates the cause, with witnesses reporting the plane was missing a wing.
  • Angel Flight Northeast, a nonprofit providing free air transportation for the sick, expressed deep sadness and offered thoughts and prayers to the families affected by the tragedy.
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It was a sad day for volunteers of Angel Flight Northeast after a Piper Seneca on a mission for the group crashed in Upstate New York on Friday, killing a cancer patient, his wife and the pilot.

The airplane had taken off from Hanscom Field near Bedford, Massachusetts, with the brain cancer patient — whose body has not been recovered — and his spouse on board. A Connecticut man piloted the volunteer medical flight, which crashed in a wooded area at about 5 p.m. in Garoga, midway between Albany and Syracuse.

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