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The plane happened roughly one mile north of the runway of Ankeny Regional Airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Yet another example of # copyeditfail
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Condolences to his family.
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“Plane happened roughly” is very poetic, though. It would be a great line of Haiku.
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Someone has to be first to go there: Would “rogue” elements of the GOP have something to do with this? Mr. Butzier was pulling 2% of likely voters, and the difference between Republican and Democratic candidates was 1% at last polling.
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What a waste. Running around the state in a quixotic campaign based on the memory of a teen-aged reading of Atlas Shrugged. For what? Sad.
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Is that what happened in MN and MO years ago?
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The NTSB will let you know after they’ve conducted an investigation.
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My condolences The free market works!
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Maybe the skies and his plane were over-regulated. It would be impossible for them to be under-regulated. Irony is cruel.
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My sympathies to his family.
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Ground why are you here
Air is soft dirt is so hard
Plane happened roughly
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Had he survived, I wonder what his position would have been on government imposed safety rules on aviation.
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Yeah, MN in 2002. Paul Wellstone was a very progressive Democrat. Al Franken writes about him in Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, and how his memorial service spawned a national right-wing freakout. There are some who suspect foul play in his plane crash.
And of course, MO in 2000, where the Democratic candidate died in a plane crash just before the election, and the voters of Missouri picked him anyway over the GOP candidate, John Ashcroft. Since the Senate thing didn’t work out, he needed a job, so he got in touch with GWB. You know the rest.
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Another reason we should get rid of the FAA.
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Political candidates spend a lot of time in small airplanes; I would imagine that makes them statistically more likely to die in a plane crash than the average Joe.
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Them and pop musicians…
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And there was Richard Obenshain, the Republican candidate for US Senator from Virginia, who died in a small plane crash in August of 1978 not long after winning the Republican nomination. (His son Mark was the unsuccessful Republican candidate for Virginia’s Attorney-General in the 2013 election.) The plane crashed into trees attempting a nighttime landing at a general aviation airport near Richmond. The pilot was an experienced flight instructor.
Obenshain’s replacement was John Warner, who went on to serve 5 terms.
What? Why?? Because they are unable to prevent every possible aviation accident???