Plane crash kills 4 near Branson strip

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Mon Mar-20-06 06:04 PM
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Plane crash kills 4 near Branson strip

Edited on Mon Mar-20-06 06:10 PM by HeeBGBz

BRANSON -- Four people died Monday when a plane crashed into a storage unit near Highway 76 in Branson.

Adams said the pilot reported problems and radioed the tower at the Springfield-Branson National Airport. Witnesses said they saw the plane's wings wobbling on the aircraft as it began to descend.

The plane crashed into a storage unit south of Highway 76 at the intersection of Aaron Way and Highway 165, behind the Ripley's Believe it or not Museum.

It was lucky the plane hit storage units, because it was very near Uptown Cafe, Ruby Tuesday's and the Ripley Believe it or Not Museum. Had it hit one of those instead, there would have been worse loss of life. It happened right at lunchtime.

http://www.ky3.com/news/2493321.html

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Mon Mar-20-06 06:32 PM
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1. Here's the CNN report

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/20/branson.crash/index.html

"He was trying to circle around and, in so doing, according to witnesses, the plane dropped rather quickly below the clouds and crashed into the storage units," Adams said.

"He's going very fast and then, all of a sudden, he dies like that and, when he hits the ground, I mean, there was a huge ball of fire and you could feel the explosion of it coming through the ground," one witness said.

"You could also see stuff flying from the storage units that it went into; then, all of a sudden, there was black smoke everywhere."

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