A twin-engine plane went down shortly after takeoff, apparently after experiencing engine problems; 49 persons were killed, and 33 were injured.
The plane, a 1977 Grumman American single-engine craft, went down at 1 09 p.m. near South Jersey Regional Airport in Lumberton, said James Peters, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.
On Monday night, the nation received an eerie reminder when another small-engine plane went down in southwestern Alaska near Aleknagik Lake, killing former senator Ted Stevens (R), whose first wife died in a 1978 crash that he survived.
The plane, a four-engine Hercules, went down about 25 miles north of Baghdad, which it had left on a flight to an American air base at Balad, about 40 miles away from the capital.
The single-engine aircraft went down at the edge of the Vinton County Airport near the town of McArthur, roughly 65 miles southeast of Columbus, Ohio, at about 1 50 p.m. local time on Saturday, Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory said.
The twin-engine T-39 Sabreliners went down on Wednesday about 40 miles south of Pensacola.
Christopher Wilkins, that's the name, he was flying in an airshow, in 1998, when his engines stalled and he went down.
The twin-engine Tu-134 jet went down in a woods last Friday while approaching East Berlin's Schonefeld Airport on a flight from the Soviet city of Minsk.
Irene and Bruce Steinberg, of Scarsdale, N.Y., were on vacation with their three sons when a single-engine Cessna they chartered went down in the Guanacaste region along the Pacific Coast.
