Lifesaving mission ends with 6 dead (AP)

Dr. Edward Bove listens to University of Michigan president Mary Sue Coleman, not seen, before a news conference at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., Tuesday, June 5, 2007. Six members of the university's organ transplant team were onboard a small plane that crashed into Lake Michigan on Monday, northeast of Milwaukee. In the background left is Dr. Robert Kelch, executive vice president for medical affairs at the hospital. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - The patient lay on the operating table, prepped for transplant surgery. In the air over Lake Michigan, a twin-engine plane sped his way, carrying a team of surgeons and technicians, along with a donor organ on ice. The plane never made it, crashing into the lake’s choppy waters and killing all six people aboard Monday.


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