Although the rain had stopped, winds were expected to force crash site crews to halt work overnight, said Faye Williams, a spokeswoman at Robins Air Force Base. You don't want to have a problem with stabilization. Three Florida Army National Guard personnel and 18 Virginia Air National Guard members were killed when the transport plane crashed Saturday morning south of Macon and burst into flame. On Sunday, skies were overcast and winds were strong as about 150 workers searched slowly through the wreckage. Randy Noller, spokesman for the National Guard Bureau in Washington.
Slippery mud makes it a relatively dangerous site.
The bodies will be taken to an Air Force casualty center in Dover, Del. In-flight data and voice recorders have been found, but investigators don't know yet if they were working, said Col. Dan Woodward, an Air Force spokesman. The series will focus on women who made a mark on local history by making an important contribution to education, religion, health, or public policy. Women's History Week began in Sonoma County, Calif. in 1978. The annual observation became a national event through the approval of Congress in 1987. Two of those women, Rebekah Oridge Hord and Harriett Cartmell, were the grandmother and mother of current mayor David Cartmell.