Air New England Flight 248

Air New England Flight 248
	A Twin Otter similar to the accident aircraft
Occurrence
Date	June 17, 1979
Summary	Controlled flight into terrain (CFIT)
Site	Camp Greenough, Yarmouth Port, Yarmouth, Massachusetts, United States ; 41°41′25.62″N70°14′30.95″W / 41.6904500°N 70.2419306°W
Aircraft
Aircraft type	de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300
Operator	Air New England
Registration	N383EX
Flight origin	LaGuardia Airport, New York, New York, United States
Destination	Barnstable Municipal Airport, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States
Passengers	8
Crew	2
Fatalities	1 (Pilot)
Injuries	4 or 5
Survivors	9

Last updated July 19, 2024

Air New England Flight 248 was a De Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter that crashed on approach to Barnstable Municipal Airport in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, on June 17, 1979. All of those on the aircraft survived with the exception of the pilot, who was killed instantly.

Flight designations, route, and crew

At 10:48 p.m. EDT on 17 June 1979, Flight 248, with eight passengers and a crew of two, crashed in a heavily wooded area in the Yarmouth Port section of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northeast of Barnstable Municipal Airport while on an instrument landing system (ILS) approach.^[2] The crash occurred on the end of a flight from LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York. The aircraft, piloted by Air New England co-founder George Parmenter, was several miles short of the runway.

Crash

The aircraft crashed in the middle of Camp Greenough, a heavily wooded Boy Scouts of America camp. Parmenter was killed in the crash. The co-pilot and several passengers were injured.

An uninjured passenger managed to make her way through thick brush to the Mid Cape Highway (Route 6), and flagged down a passing car. The motorist drove her to the airport, where she alerted authorities to the crash. Rescuers, with the aid of a brush-clearing truck, were able to cut a swath through the brush to the crash site and aid the survivors.^[3]

Book

In June 2009, author Robert Sabbag, one of the passengers on board Air New England Flight 248, released a book called Down Around Midnight (Viking Adult, ISBN 978-0-670-02102-4), a first-hand account of the crash from survivors and rescuers.^[4]

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References

↑ "FAA Registry (N383EX)". Federal Aviation Administration.
1 2 "Accident Details". Air Crash Info.com. Retrieved 2009-06-16.
↑ "Memories of 1979 plane crash linger on | CapeCodOnline.com". Archived from the original on 2010-03-15. Retrieved 2018-10-05.
↑ Sabbag, Robert (11 June 2009). Down Around Midnight: A Memoir of Crash and Survival. Viking Adult. ISBN 978-0670021024.

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[1] "FAA Registry (N383EX)". Federal Aviation Administration.

[Air-2] 1 2 "Accident Details". Air Crash Info.com. Retrieved 2009-06-16.

[3] "Memories of 1979 plane crash linger on | CapeCodOnline.com". Archived from the original on 2010-03-15. Retrieved 2018-10-05.

[4] Sabbag, Robert (11 June 2009). Down Around Midnight: A Memoir of Crash and Survival. Viking Adult. ISBN 978-0670021024.

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v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in the United States and U.S. territories in the 1970s
1970	Cornfield Bomber Eastern Air Lines Shuttle Flight 1320 Trans International Airlines Flight 863 Wichita State University football team plane crash Southern Airways Flight 932 Capitol International Airways Flight C2C3/26
1971	B-52C Lake Michigan crash Colorado Aviation Aero Commander 680 crash Hughes Airwest Flight 706 Allegheny Airlines Flight 485 Pan Am Flight 845 Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 (see D. B. Cooper)
1972	Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 Delta Air Lines Flight 9570 American Airlines Flight 96 Prinair Flight 191 Lake Winnebago mid-air collision Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 710 Delta Air Lines Flight 841 Sacramento Canadair Sabre accident Southern Airways Flight 49 United Air Lines Flight 553 Chicago–O'Hare runway collision Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash
1973	DeKalb–Peachtree Airport Learjet crash Ozark Air Lines Flight 809 Delta Air Lines Flight 723 TWA Flight 742 World Airways Flight 802 Texas International Airlines Flight 655 Pan Am Flight 160 National Airlines Flight 27 Iberia Flight 933
1974	Commonwealth Commuter Flight 317 Pan Am Flight 806 Delta Air Lines Flight 523 Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 TWA Flight 514 Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231
1975	Golden West Airlines Flight 261 Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 Wien Air Alaska Flight 99 Overseas National Airways Flight 032
1976	Alaska Airlines Flight 60 American Airlines Flight 625 Air Manila Flight 702 TWA Flight 355
1977	Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1045 Southern Airways Flight 242 Delta Air Lines Flight 1080 Encino helicopter crash Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash Air Indiana Flight 216 United Airlines Flight 2860 Vieques Air Link crash
1978	Continental Airlines Flight 603 United Airlines Flight 696 National Airlines Flight 193 Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182 Air Caribbean Flight 309 TWA Flight 541 United Airlines Flight 173
1979	TWA Flight 841 American Airlines Flight 191 Downeast Airlines Flight 46 Air New England Flight 248 American Airlines Flight 293 American Airlines Flight 444
This list is incomplete. ALM Flight 980 ditched in waters near St. Croix. Flying Tiger Line Flight 45 occurred in the United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands