Special Olympics CT Plane Pull attracts fierce competition for a cause

Sean Rabinowitz, of Branford, led his team, Procyon Partners, a financial firm based in Shelton, in Special Olympics Connecticut’s first annual Plane Pull at Tweed New Haven Airport last year, pulling an Avelo Airlines Boeing Next-Generation 737 jetliner 20 feet in the fastest time, as his son, Ben, then 7, cheered him on. “That night, my son was diagnosed with leukemia,” Rabinowitz recalled. His wife, Kara, called Rabinowitz and told him to come to Yale New Haven Hospital after doctors broke the news of their son’s blood results. “It was one of the best days and the worst,” he recalled. … Continue reading Special Olympics CT Plane Pull attracts fierce competition for a cause