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FAMILY AND FRIENDS SAY
GOODBYE THIS MORNING TO THE FOUR
PEOPLE KILLED IN SUNDAY'S PLANE
CRASH IN GREENSBURG.
THEY TOWRNTD AT THE
GREENSBURG HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASIUM
TO SAY FAREWELL.
JESSICA HAYES IS AT AT HIGH
SCHOOL AND JOINS US LIVE.
Reporter: GOOD AFTERNOON.
THE FUNERAL STARTED AT 10 AND
THEY ARE JUST PULLING OUT.
THE FUNERAL PROCESSION IS JUST
LEAVING THE HIGH SCHOOL HERE,
AND YOU CAN SEE HOW MANY PEOPLE
HAVE TURNED OUT TO SAY THEIR
GOODBYES TO THESE TWO COUPLES.
THIS PARKING LOT WAS FULL, AND
WE TALKED TO POLICE, AND THEY
ESTIMATED ABOUT 2500 PEOPLE WERE
HERE.
THEY SAID THE GYMNASIUM WAS
COMPLETELY FULL AS FOLKS CAME
HERE TO REMEMBER DON AND BARB
HORAN AND STEVE AND DENISE BUTZ.
IF YOU LIVE IN GREENSBURG YOU
LIKELY KNEW ONE OF THESE COUPLES
OR THEIR CHILDREN, SO THE ENTIRE
COMMUNITY IS FEELING THIS LOSS.
OUT OF RESPECT FOR THE FAMILIES
TODAY, WE DIDN'T TALK TO ANYONE
HERE THIS MORNING.
BUT WE DID HEAR FROM FOLKS AT
THE VISITATION LAST NIGHT.
IT'S JUST A LOSS, BECAUSE
THEY WERE SO INVOLVED.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, CHURCH-MINDED,
SPORTS-MINDED, JUST, YOU KNOW,
THE TYPE OF PEOPLE --
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Reporter: NOW, FRIENDS WENT
ON TO SAY THAT BOTH FAMILIES ARE
LARGE FAMILIES, SO THERE'S NO
DOUBT THAT THEY WILL COME
TOGETHER TO HELP TAKE CARE OF
THE SIX CHILDREN THAT THESE TWO
COUPLES LEFT BEHIND.
REPORTING LIVE, JESSICA HAYES,
24-HOUR NEWS 8.
NTSB INVESTIGATORS SAY
SUNDAY'S PLANE CRASH SO FAR HAS
NO PROBLEMS WITH THE PLANE.
THEY SAY THE LANDING GEAR WAS
DOWN, AND THEY FOUND FUEL AT THE
CRASH SITE.
INVESTIGATORS ALSO SAY THE
RUNWAY LIGHTS WERE OFF.
INVESTIGATORS ALSO SAY THAT IT
WAS UP TO THE PILOT, DON HORAN,
TO TRIGGER WHO IS LIGHTS.
THE NTSB SAYS WE MAY NEVER KNOW
IF THAT WAS HUMAN ERROR.
OFFICIALS SAY THERE WAS POOR
WEATHER CONDITIONS THAT NIGHT.
HORAN HAD TO USE INSTRUMENTATION
TO SEE.