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    Cessna Crashes in Iowa City

    What: Cessna 150 owned by Jet Air Inc
    Where: Crashed on to Edingale Drive, Iowa City near Iowa City Municipal Airport
    When: Oct. 6, 2008
    Who: James N. Meade, 64, of Iowa City
    Why: The FAA’s preliminary report points to engine failure as a possible cause. After the crash where the plane ended up nose down in the street, Meade was taken to University Hospital.

    This is the second crash within the month on Iowa City streets, in fact less than a mile from the June 3 crash on Sunset Street and Willow Creek Court that killed a 2-year-old girl, injured the pilot and one passenger and one passenger Sydney Blanton–died.