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- ORWELL PILOT, 41, KILLED IN ULTRALIGHT CRASHShow Details
Watertown Daily Times (NY) - July 3, 1996Browse Issues
An Orwell man was killed Tuesday morning when his single-engine ultralight aircraft crashed in a field in the town of Richland.
James R. Holmes, 41, Waggoner Road, Orwell, was pronounced dead at A.L. Lee Memorial Hospital, Fulton, from "massive trauma," according to the Oswego County Sheriff's Department.
Mr. Holmes flew out of Richland Air Park early Tuesday for an unknown destination, deputies said. He was heading north and pulled his craft upwards to clear a hedgerow, deputies said. Witnesses reported his craft tilted to the right, then nose-dived to the ground, about 110 yards past the hedgerow, according to the sheriff's office.
Shortly before 7 a.m., his single-seat craft went down in a pasture on the Hugh Nicholson farm, southwest of Pulaski, deputies said. He was partially ejected from the craft.
The funeral will be at 7 p.m. Sunday at Brennan's Beach with the Rev. Richard Clay officiating.
There are no calling hours. Arrangements are with Foster-Hax Funeral Home.
Donations may be made to the Richland Pilots Association in care of John Wing, P.O. Box 167, Richland, N.Y. 13144.
Surviving are two sons, Shale R. and Kyle J., both of Pulaski; two daughters, Heather A., Pulaski, and Breanne Godfrey, Richland; his mother, Norma I., Pulaski; two brothers, Gary, Sedalia, Colo., and Scott R., Sandy Creek, and a granddaughter.
Born Dec. 26, 1954, in Watertown, a son of Richard and Norma Ingersoll Holmes, he attended Pulaski High School.
Mr. Holmes had lived in Orwell since 1977 and was a hot stick lineman for Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. for 24 years.
He was a member of the Richland Pilots Association and National Rifle Association.
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1954 - 1996 (41 years)
d. 30 May 2013, Oswego, Oswego County, New York