October 5th, 2006, -From all accounts, Robert "Bob" Nelson loved to fly and was known as a very safe pilot. He was never one to push the envelope or fly in dangerous weather but on August 24th, he may have done just that.

August 24th had followed a week of volatile weather, severe hail storms had damage a wide swathe of crops from Gackle to Oakes. Storms had wiped out promising crops in the Swede township area of Kulm and storms had left drifts of hail in Edgeley. But those storms had little or nothing to do with this accident. August 24th would provide its own deadly storms.

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