A Boston University employee is in an intensive-care unit after surviving a small-engine plane crash that killed two people and injured one other Saturday morning outside Mansfield.
BU senior Information Technology consultant Matthew Kramer, of Mansfield, and passenger Jared Lamey of Saco, Maine, were among those injured. Kramer’s brother-in-law, Lawrence Mann, the pilot, and the fourth passenger, Cabot Squire, were killed in the crash.
The 1973 Cessna 172 aircraft stalled shortly after takeoff from the Mansfield airport, according to reports from the scene.
Kramer was airlifted to Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Lamey was airlifted to Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center, according to reports. As of last night, both men were still in the intensive-care units at each hospital.
Pilot Aaron Galvin, of Oak Bluffs, witnessed the crash and told The Boston Globe the Cessna’s pilot had called mayday and said he was going to turn back because he did not think he could clear trees at the end of the runway.
It was after this that the plane stalled and nose dived, Galvin said in a report.
Mann rented the plane from Twin Cities Air Service in Auburn, Maine the morning of the crash and had rented from the company more than once, said the company’s president, Nate Humphrey, in reports. Humphrey said Mann had earned his license more than a year ago.
Kramer is married to a BU associate vice president of human resources assistant, Sammantha Kramer, who is Mann’s sister. The Kramers met while working in IT and married in a ceremony at Marsh Chapel in June 2005. The couple has a 6-month-old daughter, Sadie.
The crash was a “terrible, tragic accident,” said BU spokesman Colin Riley. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of Matt and Sammantha.”
Neither hospital could comment on the specific conditions or injuries of Lamey and Kramer.
The families of Kramer and Mann could not be reached for comment.
Jenna Nierstedt contributed reporting for this article.