Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, April 20, 1993 TAG: 9304200305
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-6 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: DUBUQUE, IOWA LENGTH: Medium
Jackson County Sheriff Bob Lyons said, "Everyone on board is dead."
Mickelson's body wasn't immediately identified. However, Dick Vohs, an aide to Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, said the airplane's passenger list included Mickelson. Janelle Toman, press secretary for Mickelson, confirmed Mickelson was on the plane.
Rose Marie Ambrosy, who owns the farm where the plane crashed, said no one on the ground was hurt.
Mickelson, 52, a Republican, was serving his second term. He was elected governor in 1986 and won another four-year term in 1990. He also served six years in the South Dakota House, where he was speaker in 1979-80.
The plane was returning to South Dakota from Cincinnati when it crashed after reporting engine trouble.
The twin-engine turboprop had been headed for an emergency landing at the Dubuque airport when it struck a barn and silo about 15 miles southwest of Dubuque at about 4 p.m., said Sandra Campbell, a spokeswoman at the Federal Aviation Administration regional office at Kansas City, Mo.
The Mitsubishi turboprop plane is registered to the Department of Transportation of the state of South Dakota.
Heavy rain was reported in the area at the time, but the FAA said it had not determined if it was a factor in the crash.
Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board were en route to the crash site.
The other victims were Roger Hainje, director of the Sioux Falls Development Foundation, state Economic Development Commissioner Roland Dolly; state Energy Policy Commissioner Ron Reed; Sioux Falls banker Dave Birkeland; Angus Anson of Northern States Power Co. in Sioux Falls; and two pilots from Pierre, S.D., Ron Becker and Dave Hansen.
Keywords:
FATALITY
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