Poughkeepsie Local News

POUGHKEEPSIE – The victim of a plane crash at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome on Sunday afternoon was a Wading River, NY man, the Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office said Monday.

Aerospace Flight Academy Offers Chance For Students To Experience "The Power Of Flight" More than 40 high school students from inner-city neighborhoods of Washington, DC visited Kansas State University at Salina recently, to learn firsthand about the power of flight.

They Went Looking For Gold... And Found A Mummy The identity of human remains from a 60-year-old crash site in Alaska have finally been identified. In this case, DNA analysis and advanced fingerprinting techniques appear to have finished the race in a dead heat.

Putnam Hospital Center, Carmel, has appointed three to its medical staff: Simon Chin , New York City, is a plastic surgeon affiliated with Mount Kisco Medical Group; John Mack , Poughkeepsie, is a surgical physician assistant affiliated with Health Quest Medical Group; and Ponciano Reyes , Rhinebeck, is a hematologist-oncologist affiliated with Hudson Valley Hematology-Oncology Associates.

Christina Mansfield of Poughkeepsie recently returned from a three-week trip to Europe as part of the People to People program.

RHINEBECK — A pilot in a Hudson Valley air show died Sunday after crashing during a simulated dogfight. Police, rescue workers and firefighters responded to the crash site near the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, an aviation museum and air field, at around 4 p.m. Sunday.

Dogfight Routine Goes Wrong, One Pilot Killed The world famed Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome suffered a tragedy late Sunday when a simulated dogfight, a part of a scheduled aerial performance for this NY area tourist mainstay, went awry. The act, involved two aircraft, one of them a "French WWI" biplane, which was reported by witnesses as having gone into a spin and crashed near the site of the ...

"It was surreal... One minute it was pretend danger, then it went suddenly to real danger." Source: Roger Christenfeld, a Poughkeepsie NY resident attending a weekend performance at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, and a witness at the scene of a tragic crash that killed the pilot of a biplane performing that day.

A simulated dogfight at a Hudson Valley air show turned deadly when one of the pilots apparently spun out of control and crashed.

Associated Press - August 17, 2008 7:25 PM ET RHINEBECK, N.Y. (AP) - A simulated dogfight at a Hudson Valley air show turned deadly when 1 of the pilots apparently spun out of control and...