Warrior Down in Danbury, CT

I flew in to Danbury yesterday morning and had to hold for 15 minutes
because the field was closed due to "an incident". After landing I
found out from my A&P that a Warrior had lost power on takeoff and spun
in when the pilot attempted to return to the field. A witness I spoke
with described the engine missing after rotation at about 100 - 200'
AGL, with backfires and black puffs of smoke coming from the exhaust.
The engine faltered, then quit at low altitude. The airplane entered a
turn in an attempt to return to the runway then got slow, stalled, and
went in. The solo pilot was seriously injured in a post-crash fire.

This accident has not yet appeared in the NTSB database at
http://www.ntsb.gov/NTSB/query.asp.