CARRABASSETT VALLEY — A Bethel pilot and his passenger were “very lucky” to survive when their airplane lost power and crashed into Poplar Mountain on Oct. 20, a Maine warden said Wednesday. Pilot Karl Olson, 30, and Michael Orsini, 26, of Raymond took off from Sugarloaf Regional Airport in Carrabassett Valley in a single-engine Cessna […]
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Plane lands on highway in Houlton
A single-engine airplane made an emergency landing Saturday on I-95 in Houlton, police reported. Craig Maynard, 56, the owner of the 1961 Cessna 172 had radioed a “Mayday” call from his aircraft at about 12:30 p.m. saying he had lost power and was forced to land in the northbound side of the interstate highway. The […]
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Taiwan plane crash leaves at least 31 dead
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The pilot in TransAsia Airways Flight 235 said “mayday, mayday, engine flameout” moments before the propjet banked sharply and crashed into a river, aviation officials said Thursday, but they declined comment on a possible cause for the accident. Video images of the plane’s final moments in the air captured on car […]
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Airplane ice no match for crafty Auburn crew
AUBURN — When a Blue Angel jet slid off of a Brunswick runway last month, Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport Manager Rick Lanman said it exposed one of his greatest fears. “It could happen anywhere, but I was worried that it could happen here,” Lanman said. It could have happened in December 2013, when icy runways kept […]
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Navy Blue Angel slides off runway
BRUNSWICK (AP) — A jet from the Navy’s elite Blue Angels flight demonstration team skidded off a runway and got stuck in mud Thursday morning. The F/A-18 Hornet was flying to the former Brunswick Naval Air Station to promote and plan for the 2015 Great State of Maine Air Show when it slid on a […]
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Looking Back on October 4
100 years ago, 1914Although the Low-King Company, Lewiston, is showing a full line of general wearing apparel for men, it is making a specialty of light suits for dancing. The tango shirts have proven a comfort for one season and now the lightweight suit has come as a blessing to those fond of dancing. A […]
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Plane makes emergency landing in Harpswell near Route 123
HARPSWELL — A plane made an emergency landing on a grass air strip in Harpswell on Sunday evening after running out of fuel. Few details were available at 8 p.m., although Cumberland County dispatcher said the plane landed in the area of Route 123 — also known as Harpswell Neck Road — and Basin Cove […]
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China satellite detects object in jet search area
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Search planes headed back out to a desolate patch of the southern Indian Ocean on Sunday in hopes of finding answers to the fate of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, after China released a satellite image showing a large object floating in the search zone. The object, which appeared to […]
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Australia says nothing spotted in search for plane
Australian officials pledged to continue the search for two large objects spotted by a satellite earlier this week, which had raised hopes that the two-week hunt for the Boeing 777 that disappeared March 8 with 239 people on board was nearing a breakthrough. But Australia’s acting prime minister, Warren Truss, tamped down expectations. “Something that […]
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Best lead’ in plane search: 2 objects seen in sea
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A freighter used searchlights early Friday to scan rough seas in one of the remotest places on Earth after satellite images detected possible pieces from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane in the southern Indian Ocean. In what officials called the “best lead” of the nearly two-week-old aviation mystery, a satellite […]