Taylor Swift, the billionaire singer-songwriter, owns a beautiful residence in Rhode Island, which is renowned for being her holiday home. While she has been making headlines for her appearances and the buzz around her marriage in New York City, a devastating plane crash occurred near Westerly State Airport, close to the 36-year-old’s mansion in Watch Hill.
Plane crash near Taylor Swift’s holiday beach house
The single-engine Cessna 172 went down in the field near the airport on Monday, May 18, 2026. As the pilot had to change the course, and the plane was attempting to land, the certified flight instructor, who is said to be in his 20s, could not survive the wreckage despite being rushed to the nearby Westerly hospital, according to The New York Post. “It was the loudest bang I’ve ever heard in my life. I thought something fell off of a truck,” nearby resident Kerry Vacca told WPRI. The crash is under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
A year ago: Human remains near Taylor Swift’s mansion
A year ago, Taylor Swift’s Rhode Island mansion was in the news for a bizarre and heartwrenching incident. Parts of human remains were found in May 2025 near her house. Sparking a major controversy, a human leg remains were discovered on May 14, and then confirmed by the police officials, according to news media outlet WJAR. Counted that area as one of the posh localities, the remains were reportedly found “two football fields” away from her USD 18 million mansion (approx) near the beach. A month after an investigation, the remains were said to be of a 31-year-old man, Eric Wein, who had gone missing the previous month.
