this sounds alot like the plane crash that took out Ron Brown...
it wouldn't take much to offset the locator beacon thereby causing the aircraft to come out of the clouds in a place other than over the landing threshold!!
Keep in mind he was lagging in the polls and I wouldn't put anything past the demonrats to hold onto the Senate!!
Well, hon, I've flown on planes in both areas.
Ron Brown's airport is at the base of a mountain. Despite being a major city, it had minimal approach help for IFR. You miss the airport, you hit the high cliff. Indeed, the Serbs sat on the top of the mountain and shelled Dobrovnik for a couple of years...luckily the town was stone, and survived, although the tourist areas didn't. So the pilot should not have taken the chancy flight.
In Minnesota, however, snow is the rule. Icing is common. Planes crash all the time. When I heard the crash, I was afraid it was the local commuter. The rule is that when it's foggy, you are bussed two hours to the next airport to take off, or go the next day. Right now, you could leave St. Paul with a clear forcast, and an hour later hit icing. (flight time in commuter is about 45 minutes to Hibbing. The real question is why he went to the smaller Virginia airport rather than Hibbing and take a car). Closest thing to northern Minnesota is Alaska in climate and weather. It's already snowed there.
Right now the fruitcakes over at D.U. are speculating that the Republicans did it.
Planes crash all the time and it's usually due to pilot error. Conspiracy mongering is unnecessary.
-ccm