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Syosset Then and Now Answer: Plane Crash of 1954
A plane nearly hit houses as it crash landed and left this debris in a Syosset field.
Patch reader correctly informed us that this hunk of metal came from a T-33 airplane that crashed in January 1954 in Hurley's Field off Split Rock Road.
"I heard a loud whooshing sound, and our house seemed to shake," said Bob Holm on A Syosset Scrapbook. Bob was sitting in the living room of his Ryan Street home as the plane zoomed over his roof.
The pilot had attempted to land in the snow-covered field, mistaking it for a lake, recalled Holm, who ran to the site after hearing the sirens of responding fire engines.
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"Given that our house was at the top of a slight hill close to the farm, the plane must have come very, very close to our house… The sound of the plane passing overhead and the shaking of the house are still vivid memories 50 years later."
No one, including the pilot, was injured in the crash landing, but this shard of metal has survived and serves as a memory of that wintry day.
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