Six Killed in Plane Crash in Central Pa. (Dems)

[barbaraann]

AP 2 hours, 53 minutes ago

BELLEFONTE, Pa. - A small plane carrying two families to a college lacrosse game crashed Saturday, killing all six people aboard, authorities said. The two families from Rhode Island had been on vacation in Florida and were going to Penn State University to watch pilot Jeffrey Jacober's son play in a lacrosse game, according to a family friend.
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Officials believe icing may have contributed to the crash, Boyde said. The FAA (news - web sites) and the National Transportation Safety Board (news - web sites) planned to investigate.
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The dead were identified as Jacober, 51, of Providence, R.I.; his wife Karen, 49; their son Eric, 15; Gregg Weingeroff, 49; his wife Dawn; and their 10-year-old son Leland, said Carl Freedman, a family friend and attorney for both men.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=533&e=5&u=/ap/20050327/ap_on_re_us/plane_crash

I looked up the campaign donations for the men. Most people who can afford to fly in planes like this are not Democrats but these people were. Weingeroff was one of the top political donors in R.I. and I suppose he was planning on donating to Kennedy to help him unseat Lincoln Chafee, but he won't be doing that now. Coincidentally, the story about that race was one of Yahoo's top stories today.