PLANE CRASHES IN WOBURN, MASSACHUSETTS ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2018 (NOT FAR FROM THE EXPLOSION FUCKERY)
WOBURN, Mass. —
A husband and wife died died Saturday morning when their small plane crashed behind a home in a wooded area in Woburn.
Officials identified the victims as 65-year-old Dr. Michael Graver and 52-year-old Jodi Cohen.
Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan describes Graver was a "very experienced pilot" who co-owned the 2016 plane.
She says the couple departed from Republic Airport in Farmingdale, New York, at around 9:30 a.m. and had been heading to Laurence G. Hanscom Field in Bedford.
The airport is about four miles from the crash site.
First responders said there was a large fire when the first firefighters arrived at the scene.
Neighbors described hearing an explosion that “sounded like the end of the world," then a large fire.
“This was bigger and badder, like there had been an accident,” a woman who declined to be named told Wicked Local. “Everybody’s house shook as far as Parker Street.”
Robert Miguel was working in the yard at his sister’s home on Grace Road when he heard the plane’s sputtering engine.
“Then there was nothing, just silence,” he said. “Then boom.”
Miguel ran to the area where he believed the plane came down, halfway between two houses off of Henderson Drive. He saw black smoke rising up and several fires on the ground. He saw a wheel, and part of the fuselage with the plane’s identifying numbers, he said. The smell of gas was in the air.”
“We were calling out, but there was no response,” he said. “It is very tough to see a loss of life.”
There were no reported injuries on the ground.
The FAA identified the plane as a Columbia Aircraft LC41. The agency was enroute to the scene to begin the investigation.