How could this not be intentional?
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> Father, daughter die in suspicious plane crash
> POSTED: 10:59 p.m. EST, March 5, 2007
> Story Highlights• Pilot and daughter killed when
> plane
> crashes into in-laws' house
> • Police: investigation leads "us to believe that
> this
> was an intentional act"
> • Investigation could take up to a year
> • Crash happened about 20 miles south of
> Bloomington,
> Indiana
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> INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (AP) -- A pilot took his
> 8-year-old daughter up in a small plane Monday and
> crashed it into his former mother-in-law's house in
> southern Indiana, killing himself and the girl,
> authorities said.
>
> A preliminary crash investigation leads "us to
> believe
> that this was an intentional act," Indiana State
> Police spokesman 1st Sgt. Dave Bursten said.
>
> The crash in Bedford, about 20 miles south of
> Bloomington, killed Eric Johnson, 47, of Bedford,
> and
> his daughter Emily, Bursten said.
>
> Emily did not go to school Monday, and Johnson's
> ex-wife, Beth Johnson, went to Bedford police
> headquarters about 11:30 a.m. to say she believed he
> might have abducted the girl, Bursten said.
>
> That was about 45 minutes after the Cessna crashed
> into the residence of Eric Johnson's former
> mother-in-law, Vivian Pace, Bursten said.
>
> "It is just gut-wrenching to think about what was
> happening to that child just prior to the crash,"
> Bursten said Monday night at a news conference in
> Indianapolis.
>
> Father and daughter had been on a trip together, but
> Beth Johnson expected the girl to be in school by
> Monday morning, Bursten said.
>
> "She had a feeling this morning something was
> wrong,"
> Pace told WISH-TV in Indianapolis.
>
> Authorities will not know for sure whether the crash
> was intentional until the National Transportation
> Safety Board completes its investigation, which
> could
> take up to a year, Bursten said.
>
> State police had no record of disputes between the
> Johnsons, Bursten said.
>
> Earlier, before the pilot was identified as a
> relative, Pace told The Times-Mail newspaper that
> she
> was in the living room of her one-story home when
> the
> plane struck the side of the building. She said
> everything fell off the walls.
>
> She said she had heard a plane making a "horrible
> noise" before the crash.
>
> The crash happened near Virgil I. Grissom Municipal
> Airport, where the plane had been leased, state
> police
> Cpl. Eric Dunn said.
>
> Witnesses said the plane appeared to be trying to
> land
> when it veered sharply and went out of sight, The
> Times-Mail reported on its Web site.
>
> There were no reports of injuries on the ground,
> though the impact left much of the plane lodged
> inside
> the house.
>

And the story continues to build.
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (AP) -- By the time Beth Johnson rushed to tell police that she suspected her ex-husband had abducted their 8-year-old daughter, it was too late.

Eric Johnson had strapped Emily into the passenger seat of a leased single-engine Cessna and taken off from Virgil I. Grissom Municipal Airport, police said. Moments later, the aircraft slammed into the side of his former mother-in-law's house.

Johnson, 47, and his daughter died in the crash, which investigators suspect was intentional. Federal authorities on Tuesday were in southern Indiana trying to figure out what led up to that devastating crash.

"It is just gut-wrenching to think about what was happening to that child just prior to the crash," State Police 1st Sgt. Dave Bursten said.

Emily didn't go to school Monday, and her mother arrived at the Bedford police headquarters about 11:30 a.m. to say she believed her ex-husband had abducted the girl, Bursten said.

By then, investigators were examining the wreckage of the plane crash at the home of her mother, Vivian Pace, in Bedford, about 20 miles south of Bloomington. (Watch as police investigate the crash site )

Burston said Tuesday that police understood the father and daughter had been on a trip. He said Beth Johnson gave specific information about an alleged abduction, but he declined to release details.

"All of those things together lead us in the direction that this was done intentionally," he said Tuesday.

Before the pilot was identified, Pace told The Times-Mail newspaper that she was in the living room when the plane struck the side of her one-story home. She said everything fell off the walls. Pace wasn't injured, and the crash into a side wall did not start a fire.

Bursten said eyewitness accounts of the plane's movements just before the crash led police to suspect the crash was deliberate, as did the relationships involved.

"I thought he would do something to get back at Beth," Pace said. "He was a very possessive person. He got what he wanted."

State and Bedford police were treating the criminal investigation as a suicide and homicide, Bursten said. No note of explanation had yet been found, Bursten said. He said authorities hoped to have a better understanding of what happened and why after the National Transportation Safety Board completes its investigation, which could take up to a year.

At Parkview Primary School in Bedford, where Emily was a first-grader, counselors were called in to help the students, Principal Sari Wood said Tuesday.

"We're all grieving over this," Wood said. She described Emily as a "dear little girl" who "got a kick out of things and enjoyed life."

"She just was one of those really friendly, really open little kids," Wood said.

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

You know, there's really not much to say about this article.
It's sad and gut wrenching to say the least. As for the man, may he rot....

My heart goes out to the little girl and grief that this mother is going thru.

I had not heard about this prior to your sharing Newly.

K.

And there are a few jokesters in my office, one man asked if the dad was singing "over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house we go".

Or did he just ask, "want to go to grandma's house?"

you did trip him as he walked by right?

I can top this article there was a man in Massachusetts that just yesterday morning dropped off his estranged wife - at work - took the two children 2 and 4 - to supposedly spend the day with them - and basically drove to the next parking lot - doused the car with something and set them all on fire while they were all alive and they were all killed and burned beyond recognition... Disgusting huh????

I'm glad I missed the Mass. incident. Sadly, there are many people capable of hurting their children just to hurt an X.

My sister dated a divorced dad who, in the midst of a nasty custody battle, took his son out to the bush, hooked a hose up to the exhaust pipe, and gassed him. The dad was in the vehicle, too.

I'm in NC, and this was the breaking news for us this afternoon. I just don't understand people. Very sad.


2 Children, Father Killed in Murder, Suicide


Posted: Today at 3:35 p.m.
Updated: Today at 6:46 p.m.

Clayton — A father and two children were found dead Monday afternoon at a Johnston County home in what authorities are calling a double murder and suicide.

Authorities said a 35-year-old father from Garner shot his 6-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son before turning a gun on himself.

The names of the victims hadn't been released by Monday evening.

The slayings occurred outside the home of the children's mother -- the man's estranged wife -- on Vinson Road between Clayton and Wilson's Mills, authorities said.

The couple was engaged in a bitter custody battle, authorities said, and the children's mother contacted the Johnston County Sheriff's Office Monday morning after seeing her estranged husband's car in her driveway as she was returning home. When deputies arrived at the house to see what the man wanted, they found all three bodies inside the car, authorities said.

Authorities spent Monday afternoon collecting evidence from the scene, and the mother was taken to the Johnston County Sheriff's Office late Monday afternoon to speak with investigators.

The woman and the two children had been renting the house for about six months, and neighbors said Monday they were stunned by the slayings.