Turners Falls - Orange

On August 9, 1970 at 07:45 AM, Turners Falls - Orange experienced a crash involving North American B-25 Mitchell, operated by Yankee Air Club, with the event recorded near Orange Massachusetts.

The flight was categorized as training and the reported phase was landing (descent or approach) at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

1 people were known to be on board, 1 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 1, crew fatalities: 1, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. The pilot, sole on board, departed Turners Falls Airport on a training flight to Orange, Massachusetts. On final approach, with landing gears and flaps down, he decided to make a go around when the airplane banked left, got inverted and crashed. The airplane was destroyed and the pilot was killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration N3443G, MSN 108-33806, year of manufacture 1944.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 42.5909°, -72.3098°.