A 78-year-old woman was killed after the single-engine plane her son was piloting crashed into the Chesapeake Bay Sunday.
Police recoverd a body that is believed to be Mary L. Lagerquist, 78, at about 9 a.m. Monday in the water off the southern point of Smith Island, according to Maryland State Police.
Lagerquist’s son, Lanson C. Ross III, 48, of Fort Washington, was treated and released from the Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury.
Ross told invstigators that he was piloting his single-engine aircraft around 3 p.m. Sunday when it lost power. Ross tried to reach Smith Island but the plane crashed into the Bay. He and his mother, of Sequim, Wash., were able to get out of the plane after it crashed. The plane sank, and Ross attempted to swim to shore with his mother when he said she died. Ross said he continued swimming and was able to reach Smith Island nearly four hours later.
