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Zoe Keliher, NTSB Air Safety Investigator, along with Boise Mayor Dave Bieter, right, and Boise Fire Chief Dennis Doan, left, addresses media about the plane crash that killed Micron CEO Steve Appleton, at Boise Airport today in Boise. Stories below. (AP/Statesman: Katherine Jones)
Emergency personnel look over the wreckage of a Lancair aircraft that crashed at the Boise Airport Friday morning in Boise, killing Steve Appleton, the chief executive and chairman of Micron, the company said. He was 51. Officials at the airport say the experimental aircraft crashed between two runways. (AP/Statesman photo: Joe Jaszewski)
Fire crews are investigating a small plane crash at the Boise Airport that resulted in the death of Micron CEO Steve Appleton around 9 a.m. Friday. Appleton was the only person in the plane, according to Boise Airport reports and Micron reports. A news conference is scheduled for 2 p.m. Ada County dispatchers say reports came in of a small plane, with one person on board, on fire before it landed near an airport runway. The plane, a Lancair experimental aircraft, went down between two runways. The Lancair is a single-engine prop plane/Idaho Statesman. More here. (AP file photo: Steve Appleton checks on components of the engine that ran a stunt jet airplane in Boise in December 2005)
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“While exiting Boise (July 4) and heading back to Catalina, I thanked the TSA rep at the airport for her service
on Independence Day,” posts Dennis Mansfield. “'Happy 4th of July', I said. Her quiet answer took me by surprise. She looked both ways, then said in a hushed voice: 'Happy 4th to you sir; we can't initiate such a greeting to travellers because TSA is worried it will offend people. We can only respond. Thank you for saying that to me.' TSA's concerned that they will offend people for this holiday and others as well? Like who?”/Dennis Mansfield. More here.
Question: Do you see anything wrong with the greeting: “Happy 4th of July”?
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airport renovation won’t emulate Boise’s recent
river-themed remake. Dallas City Councilwoman Angela Hunt is citing the Boise Airport as a
model of what not to be as the city prepares to renovate Love Field. “We’re not Boise, Idaho,” Hunt said Wednesday. “We don’t have to have
this plain vanilla look about our airport. I think we should be proud
of the fact that we’ve got the cowboy thing going on and the incredible
landscapes to choose from.” Hunt’s dismissal of Boise, which completed a $108.5 million expansion
of the terminal in 2003, came during a City Council meeting/Dan Popkey, Idaho Statesman. 
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