3 Long Island women die in boating incident in Maine
Flagstaff Lake in Eustis in Western Maine, where the Long Island women died in an August 2025 boating incident. Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto/lauraag
Three Long Island women were killed after a pontoon boat flipped on Aug. 30, 2025, tossing them into the water and trapping them under the boat, according to authorities and a wrongful death lawsuit.
The incident took place at about 1:30 p.m. on Flagstaff Lake, roughly 80 miles northwest of Waterville.
The boat, an 18-foot Sea-Doo Switch, was heading toward the beach of a lakeside campground and just 180 feet from shore when its bow ducked under the water, according to the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife. The boat's operator was unable to right the boat and he and six others were thrown into the water, authorities said.
Witnesses on shore rushed to assist and were able to pull the boaters to shore, but 53-year-old Farhana Nasir, of Selden, and Kiran Akbar, 23, of Lake Grove, died at the scene, authorities said.
A third woman, 22-year-old Noor Nasir, of Selden and living in New York City, was airlifted to the Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor. She died on Sept. 2, 2005, according to the lawsuit filed on behalf of the victims in August 2026.
The accident is under investigation, the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife said.
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