One fatality reported after plane crashes in Hanson cranberry bog

[Ian David]

One fatality reported after plane crashes in Hanson cranberry bog
August 1, 2007

HANSON, Mass. --A small plane crashed into a cranberry bog just north of the Cranland Airport Wednesday, killing one person onboard.

The plane went down about 8:45 a.m., The Enterprise of Brockton reported on its Web site.

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Hanson Police Chief Edward Savage said the victim was a 64-year-old man, but no other information was immediately available.

Cranland Airport opened about 50 years ago as a private airfield for crop dusters servicing the area's cranberry bogs. Today, it is privately owned and open to commercial use.

More:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/08/01/one_fatality_reported_after_plane_crashes_in_hanson_cranberry_bog/


I wonder if the guy's last thoughts were, "Mmm bop, ba duba dop"


Mmm bop, ba duba dop.. Ba du bop, ba duba dop... Ba du bop, ba duba dop.. Ba du

[Ian David]

1. Update: Pilot killed in ultralight plane crash in Hanson (Lawyer, author G. Lamar Crittenden)

By April Yee, Globe Correspondent | August 2, 2007

HANSON -- Unlike others who would fly in groups, G. Lamar Crittenden liked to pilot his ultralight plane alone, gliding 1,000 feet or higher above his Wareham home and Onset Beach. Flying the tiny craft was the closest he could come to being a bird, he told his family.

Crittenden, a 63-year-old lawyer, was killed early yesterday when his plane crashed near the Cranland Airport runway in Hanson, a rural town about 30 miles south of Boston. The state Aeronautics Commission, along with State Police and Hanson police, are investigating.

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He grew up in Dover and majored in English at Princeton University and studied at Yale Law School. In 1966 and '67 he served in Vietnam as a forward observer in the Army's First Cavalry Division. He later practiced law for technology companies in Lexington and Boston, his daughter said.

Crittenden wrote about his wartime experiences in a work of fiction titled "Jungle Rules," published in March 2006 by Dan River Press in Maine. To promote his book, he jumped into his sport utility vehicle for a monthlong tour, speaking to veterans' groups as far away as California.


A Wareham man was killed yesterday when his small plane crashed near Cranland Airport in Hanson. (GEORGE RIZER/GLOBE STAFF)

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http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/08/02/pilot_killed_in_ultralight_plane_crash_in_hanson/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+City%2FRegion+News


Why is this photo named "/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2007/08/01/1186020608_1472/410w" ??