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Subject: Ooops! Plane crashes into travel trailer at New York RV park
MONTAUK, N.Y. -- The pilot of a 1979 Cessna Skylark II attempted to land just 500 feet short of the end of 3,200 feet of runaway at the Montauk Airport on Saturday at about 2:30 p.m.

The plane crashed through a fence on East Lake Drive, crossed that road, shearing off branches from a stand of Russian olive trees, and crashed into a trailer parked at Rick’s Crabby Cowboy Cafe. No one was hurt.

“They were going too fast,” Helen Gil, the manager at the Montauk Airport, said. “I was in front of the wind-sock” on the runway, she said. “They came in a little too high and fast,” she said as she walked over skid marks on the runway.

Stanley Urbanowiecz was in the camper next to the one the plane crashed into. He and some friends heard a loud crash. “We looked out the window. It looked like the other trailer had jumped. We were the first to the plane. There was fuel leaking. The pilot was all right.”

“You get to something like this, everyone is a little on pins and needles,” Montauk Fire Chief Robert Gosman said on Monday. The first thing he said, was the smell not just of aviation fuel, but of propane from the camper. “The worst part is the fumes, the vapors. Any little spark can ignite,” he said.

Chris and Judy Bodecker, the owners of the Forest River Cherokee trailer that the plane crashed into, were home in Tenafly, N.J., at the time celebrating Mrs. Bodecker’s mother’s 83rd birthday.

When he and his wife were told “I have some bad news for you. Your trailer has been struck by a plane,” they thought the phone call was a practical joke. “We had joked about it when we parked, ‘I sure hope it doesn’t get hit by a plane,’ ” Mrs. Bodecker said as she and her husband assessed the damage the next day. The interior of the trailer was covered with shattered glass, the frame of the vehicle bent from the impact.


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