Small plane crash at Cape Cod airport leaves pilot dead

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A tiny level crashed Sunday (January 5, 2026) astatine the Provincetown Municipal Airport connected Cape Cod, catching occurrence and sidesplitting the pilot, who was the lone idiosyncratic connected board, officials said.

Firefighters and different exigency responders extinguished the occurrence astatine the clang tract adjacent the seaside assemblage astatine the precise extremity of the Cape Cod, metropolis officials said successful a quality release.

The connection said the aviator was pronounced dormant astatine the clang site.

The National Transportation Safety Board said successful a connection that the aircraf was a Cessna 172N and that it volition analyse the crash. It gave nary preliminary denotation of a imaginable cause.

The airdrome was closed pursuing the crash.

Provincetown is located astir 50 miles (80 kilometres) southeast of Boston astatine the extremity of Cape Cod, the hooked peninsula jutting into the Atlantic Ocean successful southeast Massachusetts.

Published - January 05, 2026 05:13 americium IST

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