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A small plane crash in Montana attracted the attention of correspondents on all three newscasts because the 14 dead included such a large number of children. Three families--seven children, six parents, one pilot--were flying in a single-engine Pilatus PC-12 propeller plane from Oroville Cal to a ski break in Bozeman Mont when the plane tried to make an emergency landing in Butte. The plane was designed to seat ten, so six of the children would have been doubling up. "Extra weight can cause a plane to stall," suggested ABC's Lisa Fletcher. Both NBC's Lee Cowan and Hattie Kauffman of CBS' Early Show noted that the crash site was the Holy Cross Cemetery on the approach to the Butte runway. "Eerie," Kauffman called the scene…Cowan called it "eerie." He showed us "the new row of crosses outside the cemetery fence."
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