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Door from plane that crashed in New Hampshire turns up several miles away
Officials found a door of the wrecked plane in a yard in Manchester.
Following a plane crash in New Hampshire that hospitalized a pilot with critical injuries, a part of the plane was found nearly six miles from the crash site, according to investigators.
A spokesperson for the National Transportation Safety Board said the left cockpit door of the Beechcraft 99 airplane was located in a yard six miles away from the Londonderry crash site. WCVB reports officials found the door on Christy Lane in Manchester.
Debris from the wreck was taken to a facility in Westfield, Massachusetts, in order to further investigate the crash.
The small plane landed in a wooded area near a neighborhood at about 7:30 a.m. Jan. 26.
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“He was probably 70 feet (21 meters) from a residence, a single-family residence,” Londonderry Fire Chief Bo Butler said at a news conference. “So it was very, very close.”
Only the pilot was in the plane at the time of the crash, the Associated Press reports; Londonderry fire officials said the last update they received was that the pilot was still hospitalized.
The cargo plane departed from the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport and was headed to Presque Isle, Maine. It isn’t immediately clear what caused the crash, and NTSB officials said it was too early in the investigation.
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“During the on-scene phase of the investigative process, the NTSB does not determine or speculate about the cause of the accident,” a spokesperson said.
Investigators will use information such as flight data, maintenance records, weather forecasts, the pilot’s background, and air traffic communications to put together a preliminary report, available within 30 days. However, a probable cause of the crash will become available in the final report, which could take two years to put together.
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