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JOLIET Crash kills 2

What: LANCAIR 360 Single Engine Registration #: 3603R from Buffalo Niagara International Airport was attempting to land at the Joliet airport.
Where: JOLIET State: IL
When: 01/02/2009, 9 pm
Who: 2 on board: Stuart D. Seffern and his wife, Debbie,
Why: AIRCRAFT CRASHED UNDER UNIKNOWN CIRCUMSTANCES, THE TWO PERSONS ON BOARD
WERE FATALY INJURED, JOLIET, IL Investigators are trying to determine whether there was mechanical or pilot error involved. The NTSB will be holding a conference at 3 to discuss this crash, The plane burst into flames near the end of a runway.

Seffern was president of the Lantzair Flyers Club.

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