Woster: When grief blanketed South Dakota 33 years ago from a deadly plane crash

Woster: When grief blanketed South Dakota 33 years ago from a deadly plane crash

All these years later, I struggle whenever I try to describe the collective sense of loss, of grief, that lay over the capital city in late April of 1993 following the crash of a state airplane carrying eight South Dakotans, including Gov. George S. Mickelson. On April 19, it will have been 33 years since the crash in a farmyard in Iowa. The governor and the other passengers in the aircraft were returning home from an economic development trip t…