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Pilot sustains minor injuries in crash at Falmouth airport

By Alli Knothe

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  April 13, 2012

A Falmouth man crashed his plane into a tree while trying to land the kit-built aircraft at the Falmouth Airpark today, according to police and the Federal Aviation Administration. Jeffrey Mandeville approached a landing strip at about 11:15 a.m. and got stuck in the canopy of a tree, said FAA spokesman Jim Peters. Peters said Mandeville was flying in from Fitchburg, piloting a Murphy Rebel that he owned and had built from a kit.

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