Federal Agency to Probe Samantha Smith Air Crash
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PORTLAND, Me. — The National Transportation Safety Board announced Tuesday that it will hold hearings here Jan. 28-29 to determine the cause of the plane crash that killed Maine schoolgirl Samantha Smith and seven others last August.
Samantha, who was 13 when she died, gained fame when she wrote to Soviet Premier Yuri V. Andropov, then visited him in 1983.
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