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Plane Crash Kills Transplant Team

Posted Jun 6, 07 4:33 AM CDT in US,  Science & Health 

(Newser) – Six members of a transplant team on a life-saving mission were killed when their plane plunged into Lake Michigan, 6 miles from Milwaukee. The AP reports the team included the pilot and co-pilot  of the Cessna Citation, a cardiac surgeon, a transplant donor specialist and a trainee in pediatric cardiothoracic surgery. The organs were also lost.

The patient, who may become victim number seven, is in critical condition at the University of Michigan Hospital. A search for surviviors on Lake Michigan turned up some wreckage and some human remains. There was no sign of any survivors.

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