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Federal agents are also checking a link between Thornton and David Lee Williams, 35, of Atlanta, who died with 15 other sky divers two weeks ago when his plane stalled and plunged to the ground in rural Jenkinsburg, Ga. The plane's wing tanks were spiked with sugar, indicating sabotage. Thornton and Williams knew each other, and authorities speculate that they skimmed a cocaine shipment from Colombian drug suppliers. After Thornton's death, Williams became a target for revenge. His fellow sky divers, according to this theory, were just innocent bystanders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cocaine's Skydiving Smugglers | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...clear day. Light winds. Nothing should have gone wrong. Yet barely had the single-engine Cessna 208 Caravan lifted off in Jenkinsburg, Ga., last week when it stalled and plunged into a pasture from 1,000 ft., too suddenly for the pilot or any of the 16 experienced skydivers to escape. All were killed, their bodies crushed against one another in the front of the plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia: The Skydivers' Last Plunge | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

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