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Friday, September 28, 2018
Vol. 6, No. 39
GUIDE TO FALL
MANHASSET MAY GET MEDICAL MARIJUANA
COUNTY FLUSHES AWAY $2.56M IN SEWER FEES
PAGES 37-68
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Control warned pilot of low alt. prior to crash
INTO THE STORM
Preliminary NTSB report says Graver drifted north after flying too low BY T E R I W EST Dr. L. Michael Graver was alerted that he was at low altitude before the private plane he was flying crashed in Woburn, Massachusetts, according to a preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board. On Sept. 15, Graver, a resident of Manhasset and a surgeon at Northwell’s Sandra Bass Heart Hospital, and his wife, Jodi Cohen, a real estate agent, were killed in the crash. The safety board gave this account: Graver contacted the control tower at Laurence G. Hanscom Field in Bedford and was cleared for landing. While approaching, the controller issued a low altitude alert, which Graver acknowledged. Graver told the controller that he was climbing. Then, after about 20 seconds, the controller informed Graver that he was drifting north.
“The pilot did not acknowledge the call,” the report says. The controller again told Graver he was at low altitude and asked if he was still approaching to land, to which Graver responded saying that he was not. About 20 seconds later controllers lost radar and radio contact. When the plane crashed, it made a “wreckage path” of about 300 feet, crashed into trees and caught fire. The fire consumed about 20 percent of the plane, according to the report. The weather included a calm wind and two-mile visibility. Graver had 1,945 flight hours recorded in his pilot logbook. The FAA requires pilots to have a “flight review” at least every two years, in which they have at least one hour on the ground and one hour in flight with a trainer who will designate them proficient and safe. Graver’s most recent review Continued on Page 90
PHOTO COURTESY OF NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA
A worker with North Shore Animal League America carries a pair of puppies that were transported to Port Washington to escape Hurricane Florence. See story on page 3.
Three men arrested for residential burglaries BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN
Westbury, charging them with second-degree burglary. Brayan Castano, 30, and Nassau County police ar- Andres Zapata, 20, both of rested three men!on Friday for Queens, and Oscar Vera, 27, allegedly burglarizing a series of California were arrested in of homes in Manhasset and Old connection with seven burglar-
ies – five of which occurred in the Manhasset and Old Westbury areas. Castano and Zapata face seven counts of second-degree burglary, while Vera faces one Continued on Page 90
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