4 Die in Crash Off Martha’s Vineyard
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A small airplane crashed in a dense forest a mile short of the runway at Martha’s Vineyard Airport in Edgartown, Mass., killing a former New Jersey legislator and three members of his family. Police said air traffic controllers lost contact with the 1977 Mitsubishi twin-engine turboprop on its final approach late Friday. Moments earlier, pilot Charles B. Yates had acknowledged an altitude alert from the tower, saying, “I am correcting,” said National Transportation Safety Board inspector Stephen Demko. Rescue crews found the plane in flames.
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