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12 AMERICANS DIE IN KENYA CRASH.(News)
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The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
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July 21, 2003
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Byline: Bryan Mealer Associated Press
MOUNT KENYA, Kenya -- A team of Kenyan investigators began probing the wreckage Monday of a chartered plane that slammed into Mount Kenya, killing three generations of an American family and two South African pilots, officials said.
The twin-engine Fairchild turboprop was carrying the 12 U.S. tourists to a game reserve when it hit Point Lenana, a peak of Africa's second-highest mountain, as a cloudy sky was beginning to c...
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