Posted on 10/29/2002 12:51:08 AM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - A plane carrying three U.S. senators bound for a campaign event in Missouri landed in Alabama after pilots reported problems with the landing gear, a Republican official said.
Ann Wagner, co-chairwoman of the Republican National Committee and the Missouri Republican chairwoman, said late Monday that a plane carrying Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., and Sens. Peter Fitzgerald, R-Ill., and Rick Santorum, R-Pa., reported problems with its landing gear and landed at Mobile.
A police report at Mobile Regional Airport indicated that a Challenger 250 landed safely Monday at 3:28 p.m. CST after reporting its landing gear was stuck. The report did not indicate the plane's point of origin, destination or the names or number of passengers, an officer said.
The three senators were believed to be flying to an evening reception promoting Republican Jim Talent, who is challenging Sen. Jean Carnahan, D-Mo.
Word of a possible emergency landing brought back memories of the plane crash last week that killed Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn. Wellstone, his wife, their adult daughter, three campaign staffers and two pilots all died in the crash as they were traveling to a funeral.
Talent wasn't scheduled to attend the Columbia event because of the death of his 91-year-old father, Milton Talent, on Sunday.
His opponent, Jean Carnahan, was appointed two years ago to serve in the place of her husband after he died in a plane crash just three weeks before the election.
AP-ES-10-29-02 0156EST
What really amazes me is how many Russian Jews or their offspring like Wellstone turn out to be socialist/commie/pinko/red? Maybe someone can explain to me the logic behind that one.
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