3 Survive Crash / Training flight had just taken off from Republic NASSAU AND SUFFOLK Edition

Mervin Patrick had dreamed since boyhood of being a pilot, and yesterday, with his mother and a flight instructor aboard, he took off on his first training flight from Republic Airport in East Farmingdale. Patrick, 19, his mother, Joyce Reynolds, 44, both of Queens, and the flight instructor, Carlos...

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Published inNewsday
Main Author This story was reported by Michael Luo, Victor Ramos, Valerie Burgher, Sylvia Adcock, John Valenti and Barbara J. Durkin. It was written by Durkin
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Long Island, N.Y Newsday LLC 18.03.2000
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Summary:Mervin Patrick had dreamed since boyhood of being a pilot, and yesterday, with his mother and a flight instructor aboard, he took off on his first training flight from Republic Airport in East Farmingdale. Patrick, 19, his mother, Joyce Reynolds, 44, both of Queens, and the flight instructor, Carlos Leon of Elmont, were taken to Nassau County Medical Center, where they were all in the intensive-care unit in critical but stable condition last evening. Leon, the 21-year-old instructor from Flightways of Long Island training school near the airport, was piloting the plane. A witness reported seeing the propeller stop and the aircraft stall at about 150 feet in the air, said Arnold Roholt, a Federal Aviation Administration safety inspector in Farmingdale.