CRASH INVESTIGATORS HEAD HOME WITH EVIDENCE IN DENVER DEATH.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Federal transportation safety inspectors packed up their on-site investigation into John Denver's fatal airplane crash Wednesday. Teams of National Transportation Safety Board investigators cleaned up remaining details at the site of the crash in which the 53-year-old singer was killed instantly. The investigators then returned to their respective offices in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and Washington, saying their work would continue from there. It could take six months to determine the cause of the crash because there is a backlog of other cases, said NTSB NTSB abbr. National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Matt Furman. ``There are approximately 2,000 aviation accidents in this country every year, and the NTSB by law has to investigate all of them. This one goes into the pipeline,'' he said. The singer's cremated ashes were taken Wednesday to Colorado, where memorial services are scheduled, said Denver's publicist pub·li·cist n. One who publicizes, especially a press or publicity agent. publicist Noun a person, such as a press agent or journalist, who publicizes something publicist , Paul Shefrin. ``What will happen is they will be scattered Scattered Used for listed equity securities. Unconcentrated buy or sell interest. on Colorado with the exact place and circumstance to be determined later by the family,'' said Shefrin, declining to give the time or place. Public memorial services for Denver are scheduled for 10 a.m. Friday at Faith Presbyterian Church in Aurora, Colo., a suburb of Denver, and at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Aspen aspen, in botany aspen: see willow. Aspen, city, United States Aspen (ăs`pən), city (1990 pop. 5,049), alt. 7,850 ft (2,390 m), seat of Pitkin co., S central Colo. Music Tent in Aspen, Colo. ``We were trying to keep one (private), but it didn't work out,'' Shefrin said. ``That's why the Aspen one went public. We were trying to keep it private, but the media wouldn't allow that.'' |
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