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7 Die in Flight Out of NCAA Tourney

AWFUL

Including college's athletic staff.

Two members of the Illinois State athletic department and five others were killed in a plane crash Tuesday morning just hours after leaving the NCAA basketball championship game in Indiana. A twin-engine Cessna inexplicably crashed near its intended destination, Bloomington's airport, around 12:15 a.m. The pilot did not cancel the flight plan or make any alterations in flight," the Chicago Tribune reports. The crash is under investigation by the FAA and NTSB.

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