NEWS
By Pamela Wood, The Baltimore Sun | July 19, 2013
The small plane that crashed into a Maryland City mobile home park on Thursday morning lost power shortly after takeoff, investigators said Friday. The pilot, who has been identified as Ronald H. Dixon of Bowie, took off from Suburban Airport in a 1962 Beechcraft Musketeer, heading to York, Pa., said Todd Gunther, aircraft safety investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board. The engine lost power at 250 feet, and the plane hit a 60-foot pine tree before striking two mobile homes and coming to rest with the left wing jutting into one of the homes, Gunther said.
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By Pamela Wood, Sara Toth and Kevin Rector, Baltimore Sun Media Group | July 18, 2013
Joe Arrington thought a car had hit his house, or a truck hit a speed bump too fast on South Bruce Street. Then he looked out his window Thursday morning and saw the small airplane that had crashed into a neighbor's house 20 feet from his own in the Parkway Village community of Maryland City. "Of course I was scared. I've never seen anything like this," Arrington said. Police said the crash of the single-engine plane injured 70-year-old pilot Ronald H. Dixon of Bowie, who was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center.
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By Carrie Wells, The Baltimore Sun | May 5, 2013
Two Baltimore-area residents were killed in a small plane crash in Virginia on Saturday, the Virginia State Police said Sunday. The men were identified as Berry Raymond Newgent, 73, of Davidsonville, and Thomas Berry Newgent, 51, of Westminster. Berry Raymond Newgent was the pilot and owner of the experimental plane, and Thomas Berry Newgent the passenger, police said. The plane attempted to land several times, likely at a nearby airstrip, and crashed in a field in Suffolk, police said.
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By Michael Dresser, The Baltimore Sun | January 29, 2012
A 56-year-old Maryland man was killed Sunday when a small plane crashed into a cornfield near York, Pa., York County authorities reported. The man, who has not been identified pending notification of his family, was the lone occupant of a Piper PA-28 180 that crashed about 12:42 p.m. near the York airport in Jackson Township. The National Transportation Safety Board announced on Twitter that it would investigate the crash. The small plane crash is the second to occur in the township in the last two months.
NEWS
January 16, 2012
A pilot on his way home to Maine made an emergency landing in a Maryland field when his small plane ran out of gas. The Frederick News-Post reported that the man made an emergency landing Sunday afternoon in Frederick. No one was injured. A neighbor whose husband talked to the pilot told the paper the man was trying to land at Frederick Municipal Airport when he was told to circle until the runway was available. He said he ran out of gas in the tank he was using and didn't have time to switch to another.
EXPLORE
By Steve Jones | September 9, 2011
Michael Chrvala's current students were 3 years old on Sept. 11, 2001. They didn't see the hijacked airliners crash into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, or the plane plow into Pentagon, and they didn't hear news reports about the jet that crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pa. Nevertheless Chrvala, a Towson resident who has taught social studies in the Carroll County Public Schools for 18 years, takes every opportunity to teach...