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Plane crash that killed 14 in Butte Montana while on their way to a family vacation also took the life of the pilot.
The pilot and 13 passengers, including seven children under the age of 10, died when the plane crashed as it was approaching the Butte airport.
A Valley Springs dentist and three family members died in a plane crash Sunday afternoon in Butte, Mont., when their turboprop nosedived into a graveyard.
Dr. Michael Pullen, his wife Vanessa and their two children Christopher and Sidney, all from Galt, died in the crash that ended in a fireball with flames reaching above the treetops, according to eyewitnesses.
Seven children and seven adults were killed when the single-engine plane crashed 500 feet short of a runway at Bret Mooney Airport.
Michael graduated from the Loma Linda University School of Dentistry in 1999.
He then partnered with Dr. Jim DuHamel in 2004 in the Valley Springs DuHamel and Pullen Family Dental and was close to all those in the office, DuHamel said Monday.
"I am in shock and devastated," DuHamel said. "He was a very good dentist, a devoted family man and a good friend."
"It's very shaky around here. This was a very unexpected tragedy."
The Pullens were on their way to Montana for a ski trip in a Pilatus PC-12 single-engine plane along with Vanessa's parents, her sister's family and family friends from Napa.
"They were planning on being away all week," DuHamel said.
The plane left Oroville, headed for Bozeman, Mont., but changed course to Butte, where it crashed on final approach, Mark Rosenker, acting chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said at a news conference. The pilot gave no indication to air traffic controllers that the aircraft was experiencing difficulty when the pilot asked to divert to an airport in Butte, Rosenker continued.
According to a witness, the plane jerked sharply to the left before diving straight down and crashing in the graveyard.
Kenny Gulick, 14, told CBS television that he thought he was watching a stunt plane because the pilot was making so many turns before the plane crashed Sunday night.
Rosenker said Monday at a briefing in Butte that the plane lacked a flight data recorder making it difficult to understand how well the aircraft was performing.
"There are a lot of questions that still need to be answered before we can do analysis," he said.
The plane's carrying capacity is 12 adults according to the NTSB and it is not known whether the extra people aboard were a factor in the crash.
"Everyone in the office is very close," Duhamel said. "The main thing we're concerned about is getting in touch with the feelings of all the staff."
The Pullens, like the other couples, all attended Loma Linda, a Seventh-day Adventist school in the Inland Empire of Southern California, east of Los Angeles.
Plane crash that killed 14 in Butte Montana while on their way to a family vacation also took the life of the pilot.
The pilot and 13 passengers, including seven children under the age of 10, died when the plane crashed as it was approaching the Butte airport.
A Valley Springs dentist and three family members died in a plane crash Sunday afternoon in Butte, Mont., when their turboprop nosedived into a graveyard.
Dr. Michael Pullen, his wife Vanessa and their two children Christopher and Sidney, all from Galt, died in the crash that ended in a fireball with flames reaching above the treetops, according to eyewitnesses.
Seven children and seven adults were killed when the single-engine plane crashed 500 feet short of a runway at Bret Mooney Airport.
Michael graduated from the Loma Linda University School of Dentistry in 1999.
He then partnered with Dr. Jim DuHamel in 2004 in the Valley Springs DuHamel and Pullen Family Dental and was close to all those in the office, DuHamel said Monday.
"I am in shock and devastated," DuHamel said. "He was a very good dentist, a devoted family man and a good friend."
"It's very shaky around here. This was a very unexpected tragedy."
The Pullens were on their way to Montana for a ski trip in a Pilatus PC-12 single-engine plane along with Vanessa's parents, her sister's family and family friends from Napa.
"They were planning on being away all week," DuHamel said.
The plane left Oroville, headed for Bozeman, Mont., but changed course to Butte, where it crashed on final approach, Mark Rosenker, acting chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said at a news conference. The pilot gave no indication to air traffic controllers that the aircraft was experiencing difficulty when the pilot asked to divert to an airport in Butte, Rosenker continued.
According to a witness, the plane jerked sharply to the left before diving straight down and crashing in the graveyard.
Kenny Gulick, 14, told CBS television that he thought he was watching a stunt plane because the pilot was making so many turns before the plane crashed Sunday night.
Rosenker said Monday at a briefing in Butte that the plane lacked a flight data recorder making it difficult to understand how well the aircraft was performing.
"There are a lot of questions that still need to be answered before we can do analysis," he said.
The plane's carrying capacity is 12 adults according to the NTSB and it is not known whether the extra people aboard were a factor in the crash.
"Everyone in the office is very close," Duhamel said. "The main thing we're concerned about is getting in touch with the feelings of all the staff."
The Pullens, like the other couples, all attended Loma Linda, a Seventh-day Adventist school in the Inland Empire of Southern California, east of Los Angeles.
Dentist
Plane crash that killed 14 in Butte Montana while on their way to a family vacation also took the life of the pilot.
The pilot and 13 passengers, including seven children under the age of 10, died when the plane crashed as it was approaching the Butte airport.
A Valley Springs dentist and three family members died in a plane crash Sunday afternoon in Butte, Mont., when their turboprop nosedived into a graveyard.
Dr. Michael Pullen, his wife Vanessa and their two children Christopher and Sidney, all from Galt, died in the crash that ended in a fireball with flames reaching above the treetops, according to eyewitnesses.
Seven children and seven adults were killed when the single-engine plane crashed 500 feet short of a runway at Bret Mooney Airport.
Michael graduated from the Loma Linda University School of Dentistry in 1999.
He then partnered with Dr. Jim DuHamel in 2004 in the Valley Springs DuHamel and Pullen Family Dental and was close to all those in the office, DuHamel said Monday.
"I am in shock and devastated," DuHamel said. "He was a very good dentist, a devoted family man and a good friend."
"It's very shaky around here. This was a very unexpected tragedy."
The Pullens were on their way to Montana for a ski trip in a Pilatus PC-12 single-engine plane along with Vanessa's parents, her sister's family and family friends from Napa.
"They were planning on being away all week," DuHamel said.
The plane left Oroville, headed for Bozeman, Mont., but changed course to Butte, where it crashed on final approach, Mark Rosenker, acting chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said at a news conference. The pilot gave no indication to air traffic controllers that the aircraft was experiencing difficulty when the pilot asked to divert to an airport in Butte, Rosenker continued.
According to a witness, the plane jerked sharply to the left before diving straight down and crashing in the graveyard.
Kenny Gulick, 14, told CBS television that he thought he was watching a stunt plane because the pilot was making so many turns before the plane crashed Sunday night.
Rosenker said Monday at a briefing in Butte that the plane lacked a flight data recorder making it difficult to understand how well the aircraft was performing.
"There are a lot of questions that still need to be answered before we can do analysis," he said.
The plane's carrying capacity is 12 adults according to the NTSB and it is not known whether the extra people aboard were a factor in the crash.
"Everyone in the office is very close," Duhamel said. "The main thing we're concerned about is getting in touch with the feelings of all the staff."
The Pullens, like the other couples, all attended Loma Linda, a Seventh-day Adventist school in the Inland Empire of Southern California, east of Los Angeles.
Plane crash that killed 14 in Butte Montana while on their way to a family vacation also took the life of the pilot.
The pilot and 13 passengers, including seven children under the age of 10, died when the plane crashed as it was approaching the Butte airport.
A Valley Springs dentist and three family members died in a plane crash Sunday afternoon in Butte, Mont., when their turboprop nosedived into a graveyard.
Dr. Michael Pullen, his wife Vanessa and their two children Christopher and Sidney, all from Galt, died in the crash that ended in a fireball with flames reaching above the treetops, according to eyewitnesses.
Seven children and seven adults were killed when the single-engine plane crashed 500 feet short of a runway at Bret Mooney Airport.
Michael graduated from the Loma Linda University School of Dentistry in 1999.
He then partnered with Dr. Jim DuHamel in 2004 in the Valley Springs DuHamel and Pullen Family Dental and was close to all those in the office, DuHamel said Monday.
"I am in shock and devastated," DuHamel said. "He was a very good dentist, a devoted family man and a good friend."
"It's very shaky around here. This was a very unexpected tragedy."
The Pullens were on their way to Montana for a ski trip in a Pilatus PC-12 single-engine plane along with Vanessa's parents, her sister's family and family friends from Napa.
"They were planning on being away all week," DuHamel said.
The plane left Oroville, headed for Bozeman, Mont., but changed course to Butte, where it crashed on final approach, Mark Rosenker, acting chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said at a news conference. The pilot gave no indication to air traffic controllers that the aircraft was experiencing difficulty when the pilot asked to divert to an airport in Butte, Rosenker continued.
According to a witness, the plane jerked sharply to the left before diving straight down and crashing in the graveyard.
Kenny Gulick, 14, told CBS television that he thought he was watching a stunt plane because the pilot was making so many turns before the plane crashed Sunday night.
Rosenker said Monday at a briefing in Butte that the plane lacked a flight data recorder making it difficult to understand how well the aircraft was performing.
"There are a lot of questions that still need to be answered before we can do analysis," he said.
The plane's carrying capacity is 12 adults according to the NTSB and it is not known whether the extra people aboard were a factor in the crash.
"Everyone in the office is very close," Duhamel said. "The main thing we're concerned about is getting in touch with the feelings of all the staff."
The Pullens, like the other couples, all attended Loma Linda, a Seventh-day Adventist school in the Inland Empire of Southern California, east of Los Angeles.
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