CAA: GA News, "Pilot crashes into second small plane while landing at New Jersey airport"

["Stephen Irwin" <stepheni@cwnet.com>]

Friday, March 31, 2000

Pilot crashes into second small plane while landing at airport
By Associated Press


LINCOLN PARK, N.J. (AP) A pilot suffered head injuries Friday morning after
he lost control of a small plane while landing at the Lincoln Park Airport
and his craft struck another plane, officials said.

Matthew Junge, 52, of Glen Cove, N.Y., was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital
and Medical Center in Paterson after the 8:05 a.m. accident, said Detective
Sgt. Mark West of the Lincoln Park Police Department.

Junge was admitted to the hospital's surgical unit in fair condition with
facial injuries, hospital spokeswoman Mary Lou White said late Friday
afternoon.

West said Junge's plane, a single-engine Maule M4 similar to a Cessna,
struck an unoccupied airplane parked nearby.

''He was attempting to make a landing. The plane veered off the runway'' and
hit the parked plane, West said.

Neither plane caught fire, but local firefighters hosed down both aircraft
as a precaution.

Jim Peters, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration's Eastern
region, said the second plane was a Cessna 172. Both aircraft were
destroyed, he said.

Peters said Junge was trying to land his plane when he lost control near the
end of the airport's sole runway. Both planes were single-engine
four-seaters.

''Why he lost control and if there were any other factors, including whether
there were crosswinds, that will be looked at'' by National Transportation
Safety Board investigators from Parsippany, who have taken over
investigation of the crash, Peters said.

Determining the cause of a crash normally takes from several months to a
year, he said.

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