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Denver car dealer Kent Rickenbaugh, his wife, Caroline, and their son Bart
were killed Sunday in a plane crash near Centennial Airport. Pilot Dr.
Steven Mostow also died. Kent Rickenbaugh, 64, owned two car dealerships
in the Denver area. Caroline Rickenbaugh, 62, was known for her involvement
in the community. Bart Rickenbaugh, 35, lived in Bozeman, Mont.
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- Mostow, 63, was one of the country's leading infectious
disease experts and was associate dean at the University of Colorado Health
Sciences Center.
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- Mostow was a crusader for better health, an early advocate
for widespread flu vaccinations and more recently an expert on the threat
of bioterrorism. He was a champion for rural health care and childhood
immunizations. For the past three years, he had been helping to expand
the 9Health Fair, a program that benefits thousands of people in Colorado.
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- Investigators returned to the scene of the plane crash
Monday to try to figure out why the twin-engine Cessna 340 went down.
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- The plane was headed to Centennial from Gunnison when
Mostow reported engine trouble around 4:30 p.m., Federal Aviation Administration
spokesman Jerry Snyder said.
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- The plane crashed near mile marker 190 in unincorporated
Douglas County.
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- Witnesses say they saw the plane go down. "As we
came over the hill we saw the plane coming fairly straight toward the highway
actually, and swerving from side to side, losing altitude fast," Willen
Guyer said. "I think the guy saw the highway and turned away from
it and when he turned left he just went nose down into the ground."
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- The weather was cloudy with snow flurries; however, National
Transportation Safety Board investigators said weather did not appear to
be a factor in the crash, Douglas County Sheriff's Office spokesman Bernie
Harris said.
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- Click here for video of the plane crash
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- A memorial service for Dr. Mostow will be held at 3 p.m.
on Thursday, March 28th, at the Denison Auditorium on the University of
Colorado Health Sciences campus. Funeral plans for the Rickenbaugh family
have not been made public.
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