Mercy flight for cancer patient ends in flames on Easton plaza

Mercy flight for cancer patient ends in flames on Easton plaza
Plane crashes in lot; all 3 aboard killed
August 13, 2008
Written and reported by David Abel, Tania deLuzuriaga, Emily Sweeney, Andrew Ryan, and Michael Levenson of the Globe staff, and Globe correspondent John M. Guilfoil.

EASTON - A volunteer pilot flying a Long Island cancer patient and his wife on a mercy mission to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston nose-dived through low cloud cover into the empty back row of a supermarket parking lot yesterday morning. All three aboard the plane died in the crash.

Authorities said the four-passenger Beechcraft Bonanza seemed to fluctuate dangerously in altitude before disappearing off radar, and witnesses reported that it stalled and spun out before crashing near the Hannaford's store in Highlands Plaza on Robert Drive in this town south of Boston.

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