Small Plane Returning From NCAA Final Crashes

The journey that led to the deaths of seven friends in a plane crash in downstate Bloomington began with a phone call and a once in a lifetime chance to see Monday’s NCAA final game. Scott Bittner, 42, was at the company he runs with his father when he got a call from Terry Stralow, 64, the owner of a popular pub near the campus of Illinois State University. Stralow had an extra ticket and wanted to know if Bittner wanted to come along. "I’m going," Bittner later told one of his co-workers, Terry Wertz. "I might not ever go again."