Stanley Wisniewski was equally at home on a motorcycle, a sailboat, or exploring the sea in scuba gear. So it was no surprise that he seemed comfortable in the sky, too, behind the controls of his own airplane on pleasure flights from his home airport in Falmouth, a close friend said.
“Anything he decided to put his mind to he could learn and do,’’ said Steve Kahn, Wisniewski’s former boss and business associate, who flew several times with Wisniewski to Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.
Friends and family of the experienced pilot are still trying to understand how Wisniewski could have crashed shortly after takeoff late Wednesday night from Provincetown Municipal Airport. The plane burst into flames on impact. Wisniewski, 48, of North Falmouth, was pronounced dead at the scene.
A passenger in Wisniewski’s plane, Tamar Levy, 47, also of Falmouth, was rushed by helicopter to a Boston-area hospital with injuries and burns that were not considered life-threatening, according to a statement from the US Coast Guard, which helped in her rescue....
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