Alaska Senator Stevens Killed (Assassinated?) in Mysterious Plane Crash
(Corruptico.com) Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was the longest-serving Republican senator in US history, serving from 1968 until January 2009. Senator Stevens was killed [Assassinated] on 9 August 2010 when an amphibious single engine DeHaviland DHC-3T airplane he was on crashed into the side of an Alaska mountain near the Bristol Bay fishing town of Dillingham, while on a fishing trip. Senator Stevens controlled the nation’s purse strings as chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee before losing his reelection bid in 2008 in the midst of a corruption scandal laying charges he failed to report over $250,000 in home renovations ...
Missouri Governor and Senate candidate Mel Carnahan Killed in Plane Crash
Missouri governor and Senate candidate Mel Carnahan (66) was killed along with his son Roger (44) and the governor's campaign adviser Chris Sifford when the Cessna 335 they were in crashed. The three had been en route to a rally for Carnahan's U.S. Senate campaign when the plane went down about 25 miles south of St. Louis in a hilly, wooded area. The NTSB concluded the likely cause of the crash was, "the pilot's failure to control the airplane while maneuvering because of spatial disorientation. Contributing to the accident were the failure of the airplane's primary attitude indicator and ...
