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Article: Family of boy killed in Midway accident grapples with anger, grief.

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December 20, 2005
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Byline: Deborah Horan

CHICAGO _ The mother of 6-year-old Joshua Woods blames air traffic controllers and two Southwest Airlines pilots for her son's Dec. 8 death when a jetliner skidded off a snowy runway at Midway, crashed through an airport barrier and struck the family car on Central Avenue.

"I'm angry towards the pilot and the tower," Lisa Woods said Tuesday. "I feel something could have been done to prevent all this. Why weren't they redirected somewhere else? ... There are a lot of questions and I want answers."

Seated near a sparkling Christmas tree and six stockings in the living room of their Leroy, Ind., home, Lisa and Leroy Woods said ...

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