Missouri Democratic Senate candidate Mel Carnahan died in a private plane crash on Oct. 16, 2000, just three weeks before the 2000 elections.
On Oct. 24, 2002, just two weeks before the 2002 elections, Minnesota Democratic Senate candidate Paul Wellstone was killed in a plane crash. His wife died with him. Wellstone had been projected to win the election.
On October 16, 1972, just weeks before national elections, two other Democratic Congressmen were killed in a mysterious plane crash. Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr. of Louisiana was the Majority leader of the House of Representatives at the time. Congressman Nick Begich of Alaska was with him in the plane. Their bodies were never found. Congressman Boggs had been involved with the Warren Commission investigating the Kennedy assassination. He dissented from the single bullet theory supported by the majority. Some believe that he was murdered to stop his investigation into the assassination.
Oct 6, 1962 - Texas millionaire Tom Slick, who financed expeditions in search of Big Foot, was killed in an airplane crash that some say was under suspicious circumstances.
Oct 6, 2000. Charles B Yates, former state senator from New Jersey, dies while piloting an aircraft near Martha's Vineyard. All 4 people aboard were kiled.
Oct. 12, 2000. Gary McPherson, Co. State Rep., dies in a plane crash in British Colombia.
Oct. 12, 1997 - John Denver, singer and songwriter, dies in a plane crash in Monterrey Bay, Calif.
O n October 31, 1999, EgyptAir Flight 990 plunged into the Atlantic ocean soon after takeoff, killing all 217 people aboard. The flight-data and cockpit voice recorders were recovered within weeks, and the story they told seemed shocking but conclusive: at a moment when the captain was out of the cockpit, the copilot, Gameel al-Batouti, disengaged the autopilot and calmly pushed the airplane into a steep dive.
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