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Teenager loses both parents and five siblings in tragic Alabama plane crash
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | July 11, 2011

Posted on 07/11/2011 8:32:25 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

A family of seven on board a small plane were killed when it crashed in Alabama after an engine failed - leaving behind a 16-year-old daughter.

A couple and their five young children were returning to Florida from a family reunion in St. Louis, Missouri, on Saturday night when the crash happened, authorities said.

Fred and Terresa Teutenberg died, but her oldest child, Ashlei Bruewer, 16, was not on the plane.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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Sickening.
1 posted on 07/11/2011 8:32:28 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

Sad. RIP.


2 posted on 07/11/2011 8:33:49 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Prayers up for all.


3 posted on 07/11/2011 8:34:48 AM PDT by PDGearhead (Obama's lack of citizenship)
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To: ConservativeStatement

My God. That poor girl. Pray for her.


4 posted on 07/11/2011 8:38:44 AM PDT by rlmorel ("When marching down the same road, one does not need marching orders to reach the same destination.")
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To: ConservativeStatement

Good folk are continually being killed in small plane crashes; but people keep flying in these death traps, thinking “it’s not gonna be me who dies.”


5 posted on 07/11/2011 8:39:10 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (Socon-Econ)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Prayers up for Ashlei.


6 posted on 07/11/2011 8:40:58 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Socon-Econ

Errrr... More folks die in their autos in one day than in a plane in a year.


7 posted on 07/11/2011 8:44:07 AM PDT by lilypad
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To: Socon-Econ

My husband had always wanted to fly so a few years ago he took lessons got his license and was instrument rated. I went up with him one time and said no more. He flew alone for a year or so and then sold his plane and quit, he said it wasn’t any fun if I didn’t take trips with him.


8 posted on 07/11/2011 8:44:48 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: rlmorel

Nice looking family, really sad.

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/sections/article/gallery/?pic=1&id=41684


9 posted on 07/11/2011 8:44:59 AM PDT by enraged
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Not a good idea to have almost the whole family on one plane, ya never know.
10 posted on 07/11/2011 8:48:36 AM PDT by Ciexyz
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To: enraged

That poor family and that poor girl. At times like this, it’s tempting to say “we have to do something”, such as, ban small children or whole families from flying in small aircraft, but families exactly like that took equal or far greater risks just being pioneers in this land at one point.


11 posted on 07/11/2011 8:51:14 AM PDT by coydog (Time to feed the pigs!)
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To: Socon-Econ

Indeed. At the end of this month Oshkosh will host the annual EAA fly in. The question always is how many pilots and their friends will be killed traveling to or from this air show? But, they keep coming.

My husband always says you should be wary about any hobby that has both the words Experimental and Aircraft in its title. LOL


12 posted on 07/11/2011 8:53:25 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: ConservativeStatement

Heartbreaking. RIP and they are now with the Lord.


13 posted on 07/11/2011 8:57:57 AM PDT by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, now Christian - "I once was lost, but now am found; was blind but now I see")
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To: Ciexyz
"Not a good idea to have almost the whole family on one plane, ya never know."

Yep...probably a worse idea to have the whole family in a car. ya never know.

14 posted on 07/11/2011 8:59:13 AM PDT by mosaicwolf (Strength and Honor)
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To: Ditter
My husband had always wanted to fly so a few years ago he took lessons got his license and was instrument rated. I went up with him one time and said no more. He flew alone for a year or so and then sold his plane and quit, he said it wasn’t any fun if I didn’t take trips with him.

You still drive together in a car though, right?

15 posted on 07/11/2011 9:00:31 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." - Bertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins)
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To: reaganaut
It's esp. sad when a whole family gets wiped out. My area had a plane crash in 1994 (outside Pittsburgh, Hopewell Township) where an entire local family incl. seven or eight kids died. Because of that, many people I know said they split up the family and take separate planes.

In this case, the 16 yr old girl was the wife's daughter by a previous relationship or marriage. The five kids who died were the joint progeny of both this father and mother, so all the father's line was wiped out by one crash.

16 posted on 07/11/2011 9:07:15 AM PDT by Ciexyz
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To: ConservativeStatement
I went to a high school graduation in Colorado about 15 years ago when a fellow graduated who had lost his entire family and his best friend in a plane crash. They were all supposed to go on a skiing trip into the mountains but he fell ill and couldn't go so they left without him.

Those at the graduation gave him a standing ovation when he came up to accept his diploma. I understand another family took the boy in so he could still go to the same school.

Still, what a hard, hard thing to have to experience and imagine the guilt he carries with him unnecessarily.

17 posted on 07/11/2011 9:11:01 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Obama: The Dr. Kevorkian of the American economy.)
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To: lilypad
More folks die in their autos in one day than in a plane in a year.
Yes, but a lot more people drive cars than fly small planes. To make a more accurate comparison, one would have to take some kind of average, like, deaths per mile, or deaths per hour of travel.
18 posted on 07/11/2011 9:15:50 AM PDT by cartan
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It’s a shame they weren’t in that Cirrus SR22, because then they would have at least had the BRS to fall back on. Of course, there are not enough seats on the Cirrus for such a large family. I don’t know if there are any general aviation parachute equipped six-passenger aircraft.


19 posted on 07/11/2011 9:16:05 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (If you can read this / (To paraphrase on old line) / Thank a TAXPAYER!.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Oh Dear God! This is awful.


20 posted on 07/11/2011 9:21:49 AM PDT by cblue55 (Envisioning when all that is left is the right.)
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