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Q Research General #19225: Morning Quick Bake Edition
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John Tower, Daughter, Astronaut, 20 Others Killed in Plane Crash
April 5, 1991
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) _ A commuter plane carrying former U.S. Sen. John Tower, his daughter and 21 others crashed and burned Friday, killing all on board, authorities said.
One victim was a NASA astronaut and another was the president-elect of a large physicians' group.
The twin-engine turboprop plane was en route from Atlanta to Brunswick when it crashed on its approach to Glynco Jetport, said Lee Duncan, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman.
The death of Tower, a Texas Republican who served four terms in the Senate, came a day after an air collision over a Philadelphia suburb killed Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa., and six other people.
?It's so sad,? President Bush said upon learning of the death of his long-time Texas political associate.
The Atlantic Southeast Airlines plane - identified by the FAA as an Embraer 120 - crashed shortly before 3 p.m. in a wooded area about 3 miles from the airport near this southeastern Georgia city. The sky was clear and visibility was about 7 miles when Flight 2311 went down, authorities said.
Leslie Komet, a reporter with WBSG-TV, said the plane landed nose first.
?It looks like it went right straight in,? said Frank Manning, a pilot who flew over the crash scene.
By the time firefighters could run hoses off the nearest road and extinguish the fire, little was left of the airplane.
?Literally all that's left of the plane is the tail and a clump of metal where the cockpit used to be,? said Bill Kitchen, a reporter for WMOG radio in Brunswick.
Duncan and ASA Senior Vice President John Beiser said 20 passengers and three crewmembers were on board. Beiser wouldn't release their names.
?The weather was clear. The airplane was on approach when we received the report it was down,? he said. ?We had no unusual contact with the pilot.?
Astronaut Manley Lanier ?Sonny? Carter Jr. was on the flight, said his wife, Dana, in suburban Houston. Carter, 43, flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on a five-day mission for the Pentagon in November 1989.
Also on board was Dr. Nicholas Davies, president-elect of the American College of Physicians, a 60,000-member industry group, said Dr. Louis Felder, who worked with Davies at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta.
Tower and his 35-year-old daughter, Marian, also were on the ASA flight, said Larry Nelson, a spokesman at Tower's Dallas office.
The Towers were heading to a dinner in his honor at the Sea Island resort community. Tower had planned a weekend at the resort, and had scheduled several media interviews about his new book, ?Consequences, A Personal and Political Memoir,? which was published in January.
The plane was ?relatively new,? said Beiser. He said it did not have a flight data recorder and was not required to carry one.
https://apnews.com/article/f9552fdcecb32f0bfebacac866a700d9