[Peace] Senator Wellstone & family killed in Minnesota plane crash

[Kranich, Kimberlie]

> just in case you haven't heard...
> 
> EVELETH, Minnesota (CNN) --Democratic Sen. Paul
> Wellstone, his wife and a daughter died Friday in a
> small plane crash near Eveleth, Minnesota, Democratic
> sources said.
> 
> The sources said three staff members and two crew
> members also died in the crash.
> 
> The plane went down in a wooded area about seven miles
> east of Eveleth-Virginia Municipal Airport. Officials
> said bad weather was reported in the area, and the
> last contact with the plane was at 10:20 a.m. when the
> plane was about two miles from the Eveleth airport.
> 
> Wellstone held a key Democratic seat in the U.S.
> Senate and had been criss-crossing the state in a
> tough re-election campaign against former St. Paul
> Mayor Norm Coleman.
> 
> The plane, a twin-engine turboprop King Air
> manufactured by Raytheon Aircraft, took off from
> Flying Cloud Airport in Eden Prairie, a southwestern
> suburb of Minneapolis. He was scheduled to attend a
> funeral in the northeast, followed by a campaign stop
> in Duluth.
> 
> Wellstone, 58, won his Senate seat in 1990, the only
> challenger that year to unseat an incumbent.
> 
> The son of Russian immigrants, Wellstone was raised in
> Arlington, Virginia, and was a champion wrestler at
> the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where
> he earned both a bachelor's degree and a doctorate.
> 
> Wellstone was a champion of health care coverage
> expansion and environmental concerns, and was
> considered by many to be one of the Senate's most
> liberal members.
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