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Nascar Spectators in Fatal Cessna Crash in Georgia

What: 1975 single-engine Cessna 182P registration number of N1913M en route from Cobb County Airport-McCollum Field to Kobalt Tools 500 NASCAR race in Henry County.
Where: Crash occurred in Shadinger Lake. Carrollton, Georgia
When: Sunday morning 08-MAR-2009
Who: Pilot Kearney, and his wife Christa Kearney, and Timothy Dean Miller
Why: All the bodies were recovered from the lake. The crash is under investigation

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