March 29, 2024
BANGOR DAILY NEWS (BANGOR, MAINE

Woolwich plane crash kills medical consultant

WOOLWICH — A nationally prominent medical school and business research consultant and his longtime pilot were identified Tuesday as victims of a plane crash a day earlier in Maine.

Steven J. Ruma, 57, was the only passenger aboard the twin-engine plane that crashed shortly after takeoff from Wiscasset early Monday, according to Harvard Medical School, whose dean was one of Ruma’s clients. The plane was bound for Philadelphia.

Also killed was the pilot of the plane, Cecil Jacobson, a former Eastern Airlines pilot who had been Ruma’s pilot for a decade, said Charles Ruma, Steven Ruma’s brother.

The Maine medical examiner’s office had not yet positively identified the two victims Tuesday, but said that Ruma and Jacobson appeared to be the victims based on personal effects and circumstances.

Ruma, a psychologist who had homes in Vero Beach, Fla.; Boothbay, Maine, and New York, was credited for helping academic medical centers adapt to changes in medical and research areas during the past two decades, Harvard officials said.


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