It was the worst US history at that time, killing 25 people including a US Senator, and became known as the Lovettsville air disaster.
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When Minnesota's U.S. Senator Ernest Lundeen was killed in a plane crash on August 31, 1940, Ball was the surprise appointment to fill the unexpired term.