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NTSB Blames Pilots for Wellstone Crash

Thursday November 20, 2003
The National Transportation Safety Board has determined that the probable cause of the crash late last year of a Raytheon (Beechcraft) King Air 100 airplane, carrying Senator Paul Wellstone and seven others, was the "flight crew's failure to maintain adequate airspeed, which led to an aerodynamic stall from which they did not recover." More details here.

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