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NATION, Page 37American NotesACCIDENTSDeath from The Sky
There was almost no warning last week before a giant C-130
transport plane of the Kentucky Air National Guard plummeted
into a restaurant and motel in Evansville, Ind., and then
exploded in a giant fireball. Sixteen people were killed in the
crash, including the five crewmen aboard the plane, two workers
at JoJo's restaurant, and nine people at the adjacent Drury Inn
motel, all of them employees of a plumbing-supply company, who
were gathered in a fourth-floor conference room.
Authorities had no explanation for the crash, which
occurred while the crew was practicing a maneuver called "low
approach," in which the plane would fly close to but not touch
the airstrip of nearby Evansville Regional Airport. Soon after
takeoff, the plane went into a nose dive. William Capodagli was
in a seminar room of the motel when the plane hit. "There was
this incredible fireball bursting through our window," he says.
"Where there should have been daylight was a big spinning ball
of flame."