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- NATION, Page 37American NotesACCIDENTSDeath from The Sky
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- 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.
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- 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."
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