What: Corporate Jet en route to Owatonna to meet with representatives of a local glass company called Viracon to discuss a $2 billion hotel-casino complex being built in Atlantic City by Revel Entertainment.
Where: Owatonna airport.
When: Thursday
Who: 8 people aboard (six casino and construction executives and two pilots ) There were seven fatalities on site and one passenger died in the hospital.
Why: The plane attempted to land and touched down on the runway but then witnesses heard the engines power up as the pilots tried to get back in the air. The plane traveled 1,000 feet through a grass field before it hit an eight foot high runway wide antenna and lost control.
UpdateNational Transportation Safety Board investigators haven't focused on a single cause. They also are looking at runway conditions, the cockpit voice recorder, mechanical issues and a thunderstorm that moved through the area and interviewing witnesses
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