Off Prudence Island, Rhode Island – October 26, 1984
On the evening of October 26,1984, a small private plane with a husband and wife aboard left T.F. Green State Airport in Warwick, R.I., bound for Prudence Island, an island located in Narragansett Bay. The couple owned property on Prudence Island, and routinely commuted via airplane to the mainland.
The plane left T.F. Green at 6:40 p.m. The weather at the time was cloudy and rain was falling. At 8:25 p.m. that night the plane was reported overdue.
The following morning, two friends of the missing couple began a search using an aircraft, and spotted the wreckage in 8 feet of water between Prudence Island and Patience Island. The tails section had been torn away by the crash.
Divers recovered the body of the wife inside the aircraft, but the husband was reportedly missing.
Source:
The Day, “One Dead, One Missing In R.I. Plane Crash”, October 28, 1984
