The Nation - News from Oct. 3, 1985
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Federal investigators said they found traces of sugar in a fuel filter of the single-engine plane that crashed Sunday in Georgia, killing 16 sky divers and the pilot. The FBI was summoned to investigate for sabotage. Earlier, the Federal Aviation Administration said the pilot killed in the Jenkinsburg, Ga., crash ignored warnings that his aircraft’s fuel was contaminated before he took off on the doomed flight. It was not known at the time the contamination included sugar.
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