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UPDATE: Wisconsinites Die in Iowa Plane Crash
UPDATE: NTSB: Wisconsin plane low on fuel when crashed in Iowa.
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UPDATED Monday, November 2, 2009 --- 8:20 a.m.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Federal aviation officials say a small plane that crashed in a corn field in northwest Iowa, killing all three Wisconsin men on board, was low on fuel.
In a report last week, the National Transportation Safety Board says the single-engine Piper had two 25-gallon fuel tanks. After the crash, investigators drained 1 cup of fuel from the tank under the left wing and 2 1/2 cups from the tank under the right wing.
The plane crashed on June 23 near Sheldon in O'Brien County.
The three men on board -- Francis Allegretti, of Cambridge, Wis., Thomas Boos, of Fort Atkinson, Wis., and Malcolm McMillan, of Milton, Wis. -- were flying from Fort Atkinson to South Dakota on a hunting trip.
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UPDATED Monday, July 6, 2009 --- 10:05 a.m.
SHELDON, Iowa (AP) -- Two witnesses reported hearing a plane's engine "coughing, sputtering and missing" before it crashed in northwest Iowa last month, killing three Wisconsin men.
That's according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board, which says the witnesses saw the plane at a low altitude. They also reported that the engine quit, restarted and quit again.
The three men died June 23 when the single-engine Piper crashed during a flight from Fort Atkinson, Wis., to a hunting trip in South Dakota.
The plane touched down in a cornfield near Sheldon, traveled about 100 feet and hit a ditch near a gravel road before nosing over.
The men killed were: 64-year-old Francis Allegretti of Cambridge, Wis.; 60-year-old Thomas Boos of Fort Atkinson, Wis.; and 65-year-old Malcolm McMillan of Milton, Wis.
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UPDATED Wednesday, June 24, 2009 --- 3:07 p.m.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- An investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board says a small plane tried to land in a corn field before it crashed in northwest Iowa, killing all three Wisconsin men on board.
Aaron Sauer says there's a 100-foot track in the field from where the plane touched the corn to where it crashed next to a gravel road.
The single-engine Piper 28 crashed near Sheldon in O'Brien County about 11 a.m. Tuesday.
The sheriff's office identified the men as Francis Allegretti, 64, of Cambridge, Wis.; Thomas Boos, 60, of Fort Atkinson, Wis.; and Malcolm McMillan, 65, of Milton, Wis.
Sauer says the men left from Fort Atkinson and were headed to South Dakota on a hunting trip.
Sauer says there was no emergency call before the plane crashed.
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UPDATED Wednesday, June 24, 2009 --- 11:55 a.m.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- The Daily Jefferson County Union reports the three Wisconsin men were en route to a prairie dog hunting trip in Winner, S.D.
The flight originated from the Fort Atkinson Municipal Airport, where the plane, owned by McMillan and Jerome Goodger of Milton was housed.
The plane crashed into a road embankment in northwestern Iowa late Tuesday morning.
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POSTED Wednesday, June 24, 2009 --- 10:35 a.m.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Authorities have released the names of three Wisconsin men killed in a small plane crash in northwest Iowa.
The single-engine Piper 28 crashed near Sheldon in O'Brien County about 11 a.m. Tuesday.
The sheriff's office on Wednesday identified the men as 64-year-old Francis Allegretti, of Cambridge, Wis.; 60-year-old Thomas Boos, of Fort Atkinson, Wis.; and 65-year-old Malcolm McMillan, of Milton, Wis.
The Federal Aviation Administration says the plane was owned by Jerome Goodger, of Milton, Wis. A telephone message to Goodger on Wednesday was not immediately returned.
FAA spokesman Tony Molinaro says no flight plan was filed so the plane's destination was unclear.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
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