Plane Crashes at LaGuardia, 5 Fatalities
The day began unassumingly enough for two Lyndon State College professors, yet the day ended in tragedy. Professors John Dumont and George Johnson were preparing to return home from a conference in New York when their flight out of LaGuardia went horribly wrong.
"One minute we were climbing up into the air, and the next..." Johnson pauses in a moment of recollection, "Basically, it all came crashing down."
Johnson and his co-worker, professor John Dumont, were seated beside each other on the ill-fated flight. Dumont remarks that, "It seemed like everything was going off without a hitch. But apparently things aren't always as they seem."
Neither man was injured, though both were considerably shaken. Five of the forty passengers were dead at the scene, and many more were taken off to the local hospital, but fortunately the two professors made it back to Vermont on the next available flight.
"I think next time we'll drive," Johnson remarks with a wan smile. "I'm sure Professor Dumont won't mind covering half the cost of gas."
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