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DEC-7-04
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Forum: Prayer Requests and Answers
RE: SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE
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BettyBaby1
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Yah! I get that too on line, and it sure helps, as I am online more than I am off somedays. Thank you Nannette for sharing this. It is such a heartbreak and only was a friend of my niece in Bark River MI
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DEC-7-04
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Nannette
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I received this link today, it has the men's biographies:
http://www.adventistreview.org/2004-1549/news2.html
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DEC-5-04
10:57:6
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Forum: Prayer Requests and Answers
RE: SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE
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BettyBaby1
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I get the Review on line and I really like getting it as it shows all the men. I printed it up and gave it to Elder Jepson at church. We all joined hands around the church aisles and had special prayers. It is so heart wrenching this tradgedy.
I pray that this well draw us all closer to the one who Loves us so much that He gave His all on Calvary's Tree for you and for me and all humanity.
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DEC-4-04
0:46:45
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Forum: Prayer Requests and Answers
RE: SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE
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Nannette
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I received this today:
For more details and photos, go here:
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Collegedale crash kills five
By Candice Combs and Duane W. Gang, Staff Writers
The Chattanooga Times Free Press
ChattanoogaTNUSA
- The head of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Georgia and East Tennessee was among five people killed in the Thursday crash of a twin-engine plane near the Collegedale airport.
Dave Cress, 47, president of the 29,000-member Georgia-Cumberland Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, died after the Cessna 421 in which he was traveling to Knoxville crashed just after takeoff at about 1:15 p.m., authorities said.
The plane's pilot, John Laswell, and three other conference officials -- Vice President Jim Frost, 53, Communications Director Jamie Arnall, 29, and Clay Farwell, 67, assistant to the president -- also died in the crash, church officials said.
Authorities reported just one survivor. The co-pilot, Jim Huff, escaped with minor injuries and was taken to Erlanger hospital. He was listed in stable condition Thursday night.
"It's like disbelief," church spokesman Olson Perry said. "It is like that can't happen -- practically the whole team."
After takeoff, the Chattanooga-based plane climbed to about 300 feet before losing power and crashing into a wooded area near Pine Hill and McDonald roads, Hamilton County Sheriff John Cupp said.
Within five minutes, the aircraft exploded, scorching nearby trees and preventing rescue workers from getting close to the wreckage for about four hours, he said.
"We're going to be here all night," Sheriff Cupp said Thursday. "The plane is in pieces."
The cause of the crash was not known late Thursday, but Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board personnel were en route to the scene.
David Graves, a McDonald Road resident, was mowing his yard when he saw the plane crash about 100 yards away.
"I heard it first, then I said, 'Man, that plane is close,'" he said. "I could hear the engine struggle. It banked left, then it fell like a brick."
While talking to a 911 operator, Mr. Graves said the co-pilot, Mr. Huff, stumbled out of the woods muttering.
"I saw him walking toward me," Mr. Graves said. "I heard him say his only thought was, 'I've got to get out of here.'"
Witnesses said the explosion was tremendously loud.
"When it hit, it knocked the pictures off the walls," said Randy Lynn, a Pine Hill Drive resident.
The plane crashed on Mr. Lynn's property. His house, now marked off with yellow caution tape, served as a staging area Thursday for dozens of emergency workers.
Mike Brown, a local pilot who flew over the scene in a helicopter about an hour after the accident, said there was little remaining of the two-engine plane.
If the plane lost power in one engine, it would be an "exceptionally difficult task" for the pilot to recover, he said.
"The aircraft will begin to roll and roll straight into the ground," Mr. Brown said.
After viewing the crash site from the air, Mr. Brown said he believed the pilot was trying his best to get to a nearby hayfield.
"If they had another 100 feet of altitude and were in straight and level flight, they would have made the field," he said.
Sheriff Cupp said workers will cut trees to provide better access to the crash site. He said authorities are treating the site as a "forensic scene" and the victims' bodies would remain there at least until today.
Meanwhile, grieving friends, family members and church colleagues gathered at the Collegedale Municipal Airport, seeking information about the crash.
Mr. Cress and his staff were in Collegedale to hold meetings at Southern Adventist University with about 50 area pastors. The group then was headed to Knoxville for a similar meeting, church officials said. The church organization, which owned the airplane, is headquartered in Calhoun, Ga.
Southern Adventist University President Gordon Bietz, a former Georgia-Cumberland president, said he knew all the church members on the plane.
"I have had a long, close relationship with Dave Cress," Dr. Bietz said. "We flew many times on that airplane."
He said Mr. Cress always was "safety conscious" when flying.
Dr. Bietz said he remembers talking with the plane's maintenance manager within the past few months. He said new cockpit instruments had been installed.
"They maintain it to a high level," Dr. Bietz said. "I absolutely am floored. I cannot comprehend it."
At the university, where many students are from Tennessee and Georgia, special worship services were held in residence halls, spokeswoman Ruthie Gray said.
Funeral arrangements for the church officials, who all lived in the Calhoun area, and for the pilot were not available late Thursday.
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DEC-3-04
14:24:49
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Forum: Prayer Requests and Answers
SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE
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BettyBaby1
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NANNETTE,
I do not know if you have heard about the plane crash that happened yesterday. 5 from SUC Georgia, Pres., V. P., Pres. Assist, Communications Dir., and pilot were killed,
co-pilot and a church member from Standifer Gap SDA survived.
Please, pray for these people and families in that area, the plane went down near Collegedale, TN The group were headed from SAU in Collegedale to Knoxville. It went down in a field 2 miles north of Collegedale at Pine Hill & McDonald Roads shortly after takeoff.
Thank you,
blee
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