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No Apparent Survivors In East Texas Plane Crash

WELLS, Texas (AP) -- Investigators will examine the charred wreckage of a twin-engine plane that crashed in an East Texas field while flying from Houston to Oklahoma.   The Federal Aviation Administration says nobody on board apparently survived. FAA spokesman Lynn Lunsford said Tuesday that the wreckage is badly burned and officials aren't sure how many people the Cessna 421 carried.   Searchers located the wreckage Monday night near Wells, about 140 miles northeast of Houston.   The FAA says the plane was en route from West Houston Airport to Tulsa Riverside Airport when controllers lost contact with the aircraft around 9:30 p.m. Monday. Officials believe the pilot was trying to avoid bad weather near Cherokee County when the plane went off radar.     Further details on the plane's owner were not immediately available.No Apparent Survivors In East Texas Plane Crash

Posted: Tuesday, November 27 2012, 09:06 AM CST

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Safe room mandates remain rare in tornado states
May 24, 2013 07:24 GMT

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press

MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- When a deadly tornado tore through the central Oklahoma city of Moore, many survivors emerged from their storm shelters to see their homes blown away.

The mayor suggested that storm shelters should perhaps be mandated for new homes. But that may be hard sell.

But not a single state currently requires storm shelters in new homes. And not even many communities do so.

Costs remain a deterrent despite the life-saving potential of personal storm shelters. So, too, does a general resistance to government mandates in politically conservative states in the nation's heartland where tornadoes are most prevalent.

Instead of a stick, Oklahoma currently offers a carrot to build storm shelters. It uses federal funds to award $2,000 rebates to residents who win a special storm-shelter lottery.

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