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BOSTON (AP) — The pilot of a small airplane that crash-landed on the Massachusetts island of Martha’s Winery final weekend after he suffered a medical emergency has died, authorities mentioned.
Randolph Bonnist, 79, of Norwalk, Connecticut, died at a Boston hospital on Thursday night time, in accordance with a press release from the workplace of Cape and Islands District Legal professional Robert Galibois.
The airplane was on its closing method to Martha’s Winery Airport in West Tisbury, Massachusetts on July 15 when Bonnist fell unwell and his spouse took the controls, which “resulted in a tough touchdown exterior the runway that brought on the plane’s left wing to interrupt in half,” state police mentioned on the time.
His spouse was not injured.
The 2006 Piper Meridian airplane departed from Westchester County, New York, earlier that afternoon.
The crash is being investigated by state police, the Nationwide Transportation Security Board and the Federal Aviation Administration. An FAA spokesperson mentioned the NTSB is in control of the investigation.
It isn’t thought of suspicious, Galibois mentioned.
The crash occurred nearly 24 years to the day after a Piper crash killed John F. Kennedy Jr., his spouse Carolyn Bessette and her sister Lauren Bessette off Martha’s Winery.