Michael Packard, the Cape Cod lobsterman who shocked the world Friday when he was almost swallowed by a humpback whale nearly wound up in Davey Jones’s locker in 2001, when a plane he was on reportedly crashed in Costa Rica, killing three people.
The plane crashed while flying from the Costa Rica capital of San Jose to the fishing village of Porta Jimenez, the the Cape Cod Times reported at the time.
Packard, 57, captains boats out of Costa Rica in the winter, according to a local sportfishing website
He could not be reached for this story, but a person who answered the phone at the family’s gallery in Provincetown confirmed that the Michael Packard who survived the plane crash is the same man who ruined a humpback whale’s breakfast on Friday
The whale, he said, spit him back out 30 or 40 seconds later
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