Micron CEO Appleton Dies In Crash

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)

• Idaho delegation reacts to Steve Appleton’s death /Kevin Richert, Statesman
• Idaho Statesman photo gallery in memory of Steve Appleton
• 2008 Idaho Press Tribune feature on Appleton: ‘I don’t have any regrets’ /Brenda Ceja

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