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The State - News from Jan. 8, 1986

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A sixth person died from burns suffered when a plane crashed into a Concord mall filled with Christmas shoppers, and Contra Costa County officials postponed commercial jet service to the area pending a review of safety issues. Chandrika Shaw, 49, of Walnut Creek, died at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley, hospital officials said. The pilot and two passengers died Dec. 23 when the twin-engine Beechcraft Baron slammed into the Sunnyvale shopping mall, half a mile from the fog-shrouded airport the plane was trying to reach. Two shoppers died later--a 22-year-old woman who had been picking up an engagement ring and a 14-month-old boy visiting Santa Claus.

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