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CRIME & SAFETY
Guilty plea in deadly Transit Road crash in February
A Cheektowaga woman, 24-year-old Alondra Ramirez-Santiago, admitted Wednesday morning to being intoxicated behind the wheel of a crash that killed a 51-year-old woman from Lockport in late February. Read more from WBEN:
Army report: Lewiston gunman’s discharge from New York psychiatric hospital remains a mystery
An internal investigation by the U.S. Army found multiple communication and procedural failures allowed one of its reservists to evade psychiatric treatment after he was released from a private psychiatric hospital less than three months before he committed the worst mass shooting in Maine history last October. At the same...
WNY aviation community mourns loss of local pilot
NIAGARA COUNTY, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Western New York community continues to mourn a local pilot who was killed when her plane went down in Niagara County over the weekend. 26-year-old Melanie Georger died Saturday when she crashed shortly after dropping off skydivers. Former pilot and aviation expert Bob Miller said people in the aviation […]
New York Pilot Crashes After Releasing a Group of Skydivers
This past Sunday, investigators finally announced the name of a New York pilot who died during a skydiving flight after her passengers jumped from the aircraft near Niagara Falls. Melanie Georger, who was 26 years old, was the young New York pilot. Georger was a former Raytheon system engineer, who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering from the University of Buffalo in 2020. She also obtained a certificate from the Georgia Institute of Technology in foundations of flight testing and evaluation. Moreover, Georger was also a certified flight instructor and a commercial pilot licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration for single and multi-engine aircraft.
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