PEACE
11-03-2004, 14:28
Our prayers go out to the families ...
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DEA official killed in airplane crash
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The head of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Indiana office was among three people killed in a single-engine plane crash in northeast Missouri, officials said.
The four-seat Beechcraft A-36 crashed Friday night near Bible Grove, Mo., after taking off from Winner, S.D.
Armand McClintock, 54, assistant special agent in charge of the DEA's Indianapolis District Office, died in the crash, officials said.
"Our FBI evidence response team was called out to the wreckage," Indianapolis FBI agent Wendy Osborne said on Saturday. "The FBI is saddened to learn of the news of the tragic accident. We will greatly miss him."
Also killed were Anderson attorney Bill Shearer, 54, and Dr. Ronald Kracke, 54, a Pendleton physician, Missouri's Schuyler County Sheriff Donald Bruner said Sunday.
Bruner said the National Transportation Safety Board and an evidence recovery team from the FBI, which routinely assists with plane crashes, had finished their investigation at the scene on Sunday.
The Beechcraft was flying through a thunderstorm when it crashed in pastureland, Tony Molinaro, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration in Chicago, said.
Shearer was piloting the plane, returning to Anderson with Kracke and McClintock from a pheasant hunting trip in South Dakota, family and friends said.
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DEA official killed in airplane crash
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The head of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Indiana office was among three people killed in a single-engine plane crash in northeast Missouri, officials said.
The four-seat Beechcraft A-36 crashed Friday night near Bible Grove, Mo., after taking off from Winner, S.D.
Armand McClintock, 54, assistant special agent in charge of the DEA's Indianapolis District Office, died in the crash, officials said.
"Our FBI evidence response team was called out to the wreckage," Indianapolis FBI agent Wendy Osborne said on Saturday. "The FBI is saddened to learn of the news of the tragic accident. We will greatly miss him."
Also killed were Anderson attorney Bill Shearer, 54, and Dr. Ronald Kracke, 54, a Pendleton physician, Missouri's Schuyler County Sheriff Donald Bruner said Sunday.
Bruner said the National Transportation Safety Board and an evidence recovery team from the FBI, which routinely assists with plane crashes, had finished their investigation at the scene on Sunday.
The Beechcraft was flying through a thunderstorm when it crashed in pastureland, Tony Molinaro, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration in Chicago, said.
Shearer was piloting the plane, returning to Anderson with Kracke and McClintock from a pheasant hunting trip in South Dakota, family and friends said.