THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, October 25, 1996 TAG: 9610250514
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A5 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: WASHINGTON LENGTH: 22 lines
A preliminary Air Force investigation has found that human error caused the crash in August of a C-130 transport plane carrying a vehicle belonging to President Clinton's traveling White House.
Brig. Gen. Orin Godsey, a safety specialist, told the trade publication Defense Daily, published Thursday, that a safety investigation board concluded the crash that killed nine people ``was a result of an error by the plane's crew.''
The C-130 picked up a communications van used by the presidential staff on Clinton's vacation in Jackson Hole, Wyo., then slammed into a mountainside shortly after takeoff. Eight Air Force crew members were killed along with a Secret Service employee hitching a ride.
KEYWORDS: ACCIDENT PLANE ACCIDENT MILITARY C-130
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