Overview
- A two-seat fixed-wing plane crashed into Curlew Pond near Plymouth Municipal Airport just after 7:30 a.m. Thursday, according to multiple local reports.
- Police, firefighters, the Plymouth County Dive Team and nearby residents reached the overturned aircraft, removed the single occupant from the water, and transported him to a hospital.
- The pilot was later identified as 81-year-old Richard Carrara of Kingston and was pronounced dead at the hospital, Plymouth County officials said.
- Witnesses described the plane as sputtering before it went down, and preliminary accounts say the flight left Plymouth Municipal Airport about 6:32 a.m. for Martha’s Vineyard and may have been trying to return when the crash occurred.
- The FAA and NTSB have been notified and are investigating while local authorities continue to gather wreckage, maintenance and witness information; officials say formal cause findings could take days to months.