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Volume 29, No. 15
March 10, 2016
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also: BNL Science Bowl winners, ‘The adventures of Peter Rabbit’ at Theatre Three, Colors of Long Island
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Cops continue search for missing man Two weeks after crash-landing in harbor, another plane goes down on North Shore The champ is here Senior wrestler wins state; whole team has stellar season
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BY Phil Corso
It has been weeks since a small plane carrying four people experienced engine trouble and went down in Setauket Harbor near Poquott, but police are still on the lookout for the one man who could not be rescued. The Piper PA-28, which had taken off from Fitchburg, Mass., and was heading for Republic Airport in Farmingdale, went down on the night of Feb. 20. All four people exited the plane into the water, the National Transportation Safety Board said, but only three were rescued. Authorities are still searching for the fourth passenger, 23-year-old Queens man Gerson SalmonNegron. The county police said its marine bureau has been out on the water daily, weather permitting, during daylight hours in search of the man both via the surface on boats and using side
scan sonar to scan the floor of the water. At the time the plane was having engine trouble, a student pilot identified as 25-yearold Bronx resident Austricio Ramirez was flying it and turned over the controls to his instructor, 36-year-old Queens resident Nelson Gomez. Wady Perez, a 25-year-old from Queens, was identified as the other man rescued from the water that night. Suffolk police were receiving help from the Federal Aviation Administration, the NTSB, the U.S. Coast Guard, local fire departments and the town harbormaster in the rescue, missing person search and investigation in that February incident. In a report released this week, the NTSP said the aircraft reported low amounts of fuel and had been operating for about five hours since its tank SeaRCH continued on page a12
Photo above by Nancy F. Solomon; at top by greg Pereira
above, police search for the missing man at setauket harbor. at top, a second plane crash-landed in hauppauge two weeks after the one that went down in Poquott.