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Olive Branch Plane Crash

What: Vectair USA plane en route from Olive Branch Airport.
Where: Fifteen miles from the airport, in Fayette County Tennessee on Price Road, near Knox Road and Highway 57 in Moscow.
When: 3:30 p.m. January 31, 2009
Who: Pilot Killed
Why: The plane clipped the tree line, crashed into a field then slid into a pond.

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