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...people died when an Avions de Transport regional plane, flown by American Eagle, crashed into a soybean field in Roselawn, Indiana. A design flaw made the French-Italian plane become violently uncontrollable in cold weather. Pilots and aeronautical engineers knew what the problem was: the de-icing boots on the ATR wings were not big enough. Those are the rubber sleeves on each wing that can be expanded to crack sheets of ice. But the FAA determined that lengthening the boot would cost too much money. It took three plane crashes, the third one scattering human remains and debris over...
...buried in Roselawn, Indiana, last Monday morning, with three crucifixes pinned to her pink dress and a favorite rattle bracelet lacing her wrist. At the flower-strewn gravesite, her small white casket was placed beside that of her sister, who was laid to rest 10 months earlier...
...Little Rock, Joe Robinson was carried for the last time to his home, thence at midmorning to Arkansas' Capitol to lie in state, thence to the First Methodist Church where his funeral sermon was solemnly pronounced. Thunderheads were gathering as his casket was carried from the church. At Roselawn Cemetery his body was committed to the earth in the midst of an electric storm with lightning crashing and 2,000 mourners standing drenched in the rain...
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