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Larry Pressler: “I strongly support passage of this bill to reauthorize the National Transportation Safety Board [NTSB]. S. 1588 includes…”

On the recordMay 12, 1994
I strongly support passage of this bill to reauthorize the National Transportation Safety Board [NTSB]. S. 1588 includes a provision I authored that is designed to advance the safety of travel on government owned or leased aircraft. One year ago on that day, a tragic plane crash claimed the lives of South Dakota's Governor, George Mickelson, and seven other South Dakotans: Roland Dolly, Ron Reed, Angus Anson, Dave Birkeland, Roger Hainje, Ron Becker and David Hansen. These men were killed in a Mitsubishi MU-2B-60 aircraft while returning to South Dakota from a meeting to help advance economic development in our State. In part, I have pushed my public aircraft safety provision as a tribute to those eight outstanding citizens.
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Larry Pressler
South Dakota
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the Independent Safety Board Act Amendments of 1994 and honoring victims of a tragic plane crash.

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