The Associated Press
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NORWOOD, Mass. — A single-engine private plane descended into a wooded area in view of passing motorists and crashed on approach to Norwood Memorial Airport on Monday, killing the pilot.
The woman was believed to have been the only person aboard the Mooney M20P, said Jim Peters, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration. The plane was registered to a Dover, Mass., woman, but authorities didn’t immediately know whether she was the pilot.
A flight plan indicated the plane took off from an airfield Monday morning in Pittstown, N.J., en route to Norwood, Peters said. The plane crashed about 10 a.m. a couple miles south of the airport near the Norwood-Canton line, a suburban area just south of Boston.
Russ Maguire, manager of the Norwood airport, said the pilot communicated by radio with the airport’s tower staff on final approach. Maguire declined to say whether the pilot had reported trouble.
The woman was dead at the crash scene.
Motorists on Interstate 95 reported seeing the plane flying low before disappearing into the woods, Canton Police Chief Kenneth Berkowitz said.
Skies were rainy and overcast at the time, but it wasn’t immediately clear if the weather was a factor, Peters said. The cause was under investigation.