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Investigators examiner heater in Kan. plane that crashed enroute to Council Bluffs

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June 21st, 2013 by Ric Hanson

TULSA, Okla. (AP) – Investigators have examined a heater as they search for the cause of a plane crash in Kansas that killed four people with ties to Oklahoma’s Oral Roberts University. The plane was enroute from Tulsa to a Christian youth rally in Council Bluffs.  The heater was found in the wreckage of the eight-passenger plane that crashed May 11, 2012, near Chanute, Kan.  The National Transportation Safety Board issued a factual report this week about the crash that killed the plane’s pilot and three others.
 
One woman survived. The Tulsa World reports that she informed investigators that the heater produced a “terrible smell.” 

(8-a.m. News)