Long Island Plane Crash Leaves 2 Dead [Video]

Posted: August 20, 2012

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Authorities say a small plane crashed on New York’s Long Island soon after takeoff Sunday, killing two people on board and injuring a third.

According to ABC7, the plane, a Socata TB10, had just taken off from Brookhaven Calabro Airport at noon and traveled about a mile when it plummeted into a residential neighborhood, struck an oak tree, crashed into a dumpster, and exploded into a ball of fire.

Police identified one of those killed as Jane Unhjem, 60, of Goshen, New York but the identity of a man who died in the crash had not been released.

Jane’s husband, Erik Unhjem, 61, also of Goshen, was hospitalized in serious condition.

“The husband was standing over his wife, just crying over his wife,” one witness told the NY Daily newspaper. “We helped them get away from the plane before there was another explosion.”

The National Transportation Safety Board began its on-site investigation of the crash on Monday. Federal investigators will document the wreckage on scene before turning the site over to local authorities, officials said.

According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the single-engine aircraft, known as a tobago by those in the aviation industry, is registered to a man in Orlando, Florida. It had been at the Brookhaven Airport for the past month.

The FAA didn’t immediately release the plane’s identification number or owner’s name, saying those would be disclosed once authorities confirmed the condition of those on the ground.

ABC has more on the tragic Long Island plane crash in the video below:

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Robert S
Aug 20, 2012

"The plane went down shortly after taking off and an investigator from the National Transportation Safety Board is at the scene of a fatal plane crash."

What is it with aircraft engines that seem to fail after takeoff and what has the NTSB ever correlated about this anomaly?

Why did the NTSB ignore my Petition about this anomaly? http://www.sumpthis.com/ntsbpetition/ntsbpetitioncontents.htm

Pending the discovery of a catastrophic engine failure could it be similar to FAA SAIB CE-10-40R1?

Aircraft takes off and changes it attitude. When it takes off and changes its attitude could water hiding in the fuel tank then change its attitude? Could this water in the fuel tank leave its hiding place, after takeoff, and make its way to the engine fuel pick-up?

The NTSB has written off engine failures in General Aviation Aircraft well over six thousand four hundred eighteen times with the probable cause of UNDETERMINED.
If the NTSB cannot get a handle on the complexities of air, spark, compression and UNCONTAMINATED FUEL, maybe the NTSB should ask a good old country boy mechanic.

Do not believe blindly in the FAA certification where the pre-flight procedure and checking the sump for water in the fuel tanks.

Do your own red dyed water in the fuel tank test as the aircraft sits in its normal ground attitude. Pour in 16 ounces of red dyed water just as the NTSB did over two decades ago,
see NTSB Safety Recommendation A-83-6, then go to the sump drains and see if you can positively detect and then eliminate the entire 16 ounces of red dyed water you just poured into the fuel tank.

In my opinion, neither the NTSB or FAA on the scene could investigate their way out of a paper bag. But both government agencies are excellent when it involves a twenty nine year old cover-up.