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Fun fact! My great-grandfather was a flight instructor who in 1956 died in small plane crash. I was researching this and came across a small news article from two months later saying that the Massachusetts Aeronautics Commission requested he be EXHUMED FOR AN AUTOPSY

I submitted a public records request on the Mass Department of Transportation website, not expecting anything. Today I got a reply with a zip file of 45 PDFs, all sorts of scans of reports, filings, correspondences from 70 years ago. This RULES

i'm going through and dating the files chronologically. It's like an epistolary novel about aeronautical inspectors

Eerie

He was apparently transporting a bunch of teen boys to a camping trip on Monomoy Island but had to make multiple trips to bring them all. The kid who was injured was the last. He was in a coma, but survived and lived until last year!