POUGHKEEPSIE – The pilot
of the single-engine plane that flipped over while landing at Sky Acres
Airport in Union Vale on Sunday afternoon was a 17-year-old youth, identified
as Christopher Maloney of Cohoes.
State Police said as he was coming in for a landing, the plane ran off
the runway and overturned into a pond.
A teen in the rear passenger side, Louis Farcot-Lafond, 16, of Paris,
France was transported to MidHudson Regional Hospital in Poughkeepsie
with a minor head injury and released.
The front seat passenger, identified as Michael Maloney, 52, of Cohoes,
and the rear driver’s side passenger, Lynne Maloney, 52, of Cohoes,
were not injured.
The FAA is investigating the cause of the incident.
