Samantha Smith Crash Probe Opens in Maine
Both engines of Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 were operating when the plane crashed last summer approaching Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport, killing Samantha Smith, 13, and seven other people, federal investigators were told Tuesday.
The National Transportation Safety Board opened two days of hearings as part of its attempt to determine the probable cause of the Aug. 25 accident.
Samantha gained international attention when she traveled to the Soviet Union two years ago as the guest of then-Soviet President Yuri V. Andropov and later won an acting role in a television series.
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