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The passengers who boarded a Cessna on Saturday expected they would use their parachutes — but not quite the way things turned out. The Federal Aviation Administration said that the single-engine Cessna C206 that took off on a skydiving flight crashed near Butler Memorial Airport in Missouri at about 1 p.m., according to KCTV-TV. The Bates County Sheriff’s Office stated that when first responders arrived, they found the wreckage in a hay field. The website Aviation Safety Network, which allows user reporting/input a la Wikipedia, described the incident this way: “A Cessna U206C Super Skywagon…

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