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Article: Black police officer, Bennett College co-ed among 15 killed in commuter plane crash near Raleigh-Durham International Airport.
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- Jet
- Article date:
- January 9, 1995
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Two Blacks, a suburban Chicago police officer and an honors student at Bennett College in Greensboro, NC, were among the 15 people who died recently when American Eagle flight 3379 crashed near the Raleigh-Durham (NC) International Airport.
At JET press time, David Parker Jr., 39, a 13-year veteran of the Zion (IL) Police Department, and Katanisha Turner, 20, a native of Redford, MI, who was enrolled at Bennett College, were the only known Blacks on the doomed fight that left Greensboro en route to the Raleigh-Durham airport hub.
The Jetstream 3200 commuter plane was carrying 20 people, five of whom survived, when it slammed into woods at 200 mph in rain and ...