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WASHINGTON (AP) — The problem of unintended shipments of potentially live anthrax spores over the past decade is worse than first believed, officials said Wednesday.

Officials said it’s possible that shipments were sent to more than four dozen laboratories in the U.S. and abroad. That’s about twice the estimate of last week.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss specifics by name.

The Pentagon has repeatedly asserted that the mistakes posed no public health hazard.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is leading an investigation of the matter.

Details on the extent of the problem are expected to be presented at a news conference Wednesday by Robert Work, the deputy defense secretary. Last Friday Work ordered a comprehensive review of laboratory procedures associated with killing, or inactivating, live anthrax for shipment to labs for research and other purposes, including for calibrating biological threat sensors such as those used by a number of federal government agencies, including the Pentagon.

The scope of the problem has grown almost daily since the Pentagon first acknowledged it publicly last Wednesday.

The initial focus was on procedures used at an Army laboratory at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, which shipped live anthrax samples that it believed had been killed through the use of radiation. It remains unclear why well-established procedures for killing the spores apparently did not work, at least with some batches of the bacteria.

Among the government labs identified in recent days as having received the suspect anthrax were the Army’s Edgewood Chemical Biological Center in Maryland and the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Virginia, as well as a lab on the grounds of the Pentagon.

Officials said that the Edgewood lab sent some of the samples it had received from Dugway to other labs in the U.S.

On Tuesday, in its most recent update, the Pentagon said potentially live anthrax samples had been mistakenly sent to labs in 12 U.S. states as well as Australia, Canada and South Korea.

On Sunday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told reporters while traveling in Asia that the mistaken shipments were an “unfortunate incident.” He said the Pentagon will make “sure that any public health consequences of this are avoided” and ensure that it never happens again.

The Centers for Disease Control of Prevention said last week that four people at labs in Delaware, Texas and Wisconsin were recommended to get antibiotics as a precaution, although they were not sick. U.S. officials at Osan Air Base in South Korea said 22 people were being treated for possible exposure there after word surfaced that an Osan lab was among the facilities that received suspect anthrax.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee plans to formally open his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday, setting off on a quixotic political quest that has left even some of his closest allies scratching their heads.

Chafee, a former Republican turned independent who joined the Democratic Party two years ago, surprised many when he announced plans to explore a presidential run in April. Since then, he’s made little effort to set up a competitive campaign operation, beyond a few visits and calls to activists in the early voting states of New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina.

While his primary competitors travel the country raising money and wooing supporters, longtime Chafee strategists and donors say they know little about his intentions — or even his rationale for running.

“He’s not done anything other than posture on some issues,” said Mike Trainor, a former Chafee aide. “The question he’s going to have to answer is what credible indications can he give that he is at all ready to run a national campaign.”

Hillary Rodham Clinton, the dominant Democratic candidate, has set a goal of raising $100 million for her primary bid. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who entered the race last week, has said he’s already raised at least $4 million. And allies of former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley have established a super PAC to support his bid.

All three have begun building robust campaign operations with staff across the country, a step Chafee has yet to take.

In previous campaigns, Chafee has spent significant sums from his family fortune to further his political ambitious, for example, dropping $1.8 million on his 2010 gubernatorial bid. But running for president is significantly more expensive than seeking statewide office, with some pegging the estimated cost of a successful 2016 campaign at more than $1 billion.

“The time will come, but it’s not now,” Chafee said of his plans to raise money, in an interview with The Associated Press last month. “Perhaps after I announce.”

Chafee also faces questions about his rationale for challenging Clinton. Though most of the Democratic field has focused on pocketbook issues, calculating that the falling unemployment rate masks a lingering feeling of economic insecurity, Chafee says he’s “alarmed” by international instability, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa.

“I don’t like where this is going,” he said in a Web video announcing his exploratory committee.

His opposition to Clinton, Chafee has said, is driven by the belief that the next president should not be someone who supported the war in Iraq, which he calls “one of the worst decisions in United States history.” Then a Republican, Chafee was the lone GOP senator to vote in 2002 against the invasion.

Clinton, then a New York senator, voted to authorize the war, which became a major issue during her 2008 campaign. Clinton now opposes putting American soldiers on the ground in Iraq, other than as advisers to the Iraqi forces. “This has to be fought by and won by the Iraqis,” she said after a campaign event in New Hampshire last month.

Chafee left the Republican Party in 2007 to become an independent and supported President Barack Obama in both his campaigns. After winning election as governor, Chafee became a Democrat in 2013, but he opted against seeking re-election amid low approval ratings. Those decisions attracted plenty of national media attention, which former aides say Chafee was happy to encourage.

So far, his latest political maneuver has attracted far less notice, even from his hometown paper — a fact that’s frustrated at least one person very close to the soon-to-be candidate.

“No one has contacted him,” wrote his wife, Stephanie Chafee, on Facebook nearly three weeks after his April announcement. “so SAD!”

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Associated Press writer Michelle Smith in Providence, Rhode Island, contributed to this report.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A Wisconsin police officer has been cleared of wrongdoing in an internal investigation of his fatal shooting of an unarmed 19-year-old man.

The Madison Police Department on Wednesday issued a summary of its finding that Officer Matt Kenny did not violate its deadly force policies in the March 6 shooting death of 19-year-old Tony Robinson.

The internal decision follows one last month by Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne that Kenny would not be charged in the case.

Kenny has been on paid leave since the shooting. The exoneration clears the way for Kenny to return to the police department, something his attorney has said he wants to do.

Kenny shot and killed Robinson after Robinson, who was high on hallucinogenic mushrooms, struck the officer in the head.

MIAMI (AP) — Andres has weakened to a tropical storm in the eastern Pacific while Hurricane Blanca is rapidly strengthening and is expected to become a major hurricane.

Andres’ maximum sustained winds early Wednesday decreased to near 70 mph (110 kph) with continued weakening expected. The storm is centered about 995 miles (1,600 kilometers) west-southwest of the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula.

Meanwhile, Hurricane Blanca is gaining strength and the U.S. National Hurricane Center says it’s expected to become a major Category 3 storm later in the day. Blanca’s maximum sustained winds are near 110 mph (175 kph).

Blanca is centered about 410 miles (655 kilometers) south-southwest of Zihuatanejo, Mexico, and is nearly stationary but expected to move north-northwest on Thursday.

Swells from Blanca will begin affecting parts of Mexico’s southwestern coast during the next few days.

DALLAS (AP) – Dallas police say five family members have been arrested after a teenage girl said she was raped and impregnated by a relative three years ago and beaten to induce an abortion.

Four relatives have been arrested on charges of engaging in organized criminal activity and police said at a news conference Wednesday a fifth has been arrested on a charge of aggravated sexual assault of a child.

Police say the girl was 14 in August 2012, and was beaten in early 2013. She’s 16 now.

An affidavit says the hours-long beating wasn’t reported until May 22 when a woman who said she witnessed the assault took the girl to police.

The affidavit said the baby was stillborn a couple hours after the beating. Police are searching for the remains.

JIANLI, China (AP) — Chinese authorities deployed scores more divers and a large crane as they escalated efforts Wednesday to recover more than 410 people believed to be trapped inside an overturned river cruise ship.

The capsizing late Monday of the multi-decked Eastern Star in the Yangtze River is on track to become the country’s deadliest maritime disaster in seven decades. Chinese authorities have launched a high-profile response while tightly controlling media coverage.

Premier Li Keqiang, the country’s No. 2 political leader, has traveled to the disaster site in the Hubei province county of Jianli where he urged “all-out,” 24-7 efforts.

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said the bodies of 26 victims have been pulled from the boat, which floated with a sliver of its hull jutting from the grey river. Fourteen people survived, some of them by swimming ashore and three by being pulled out of the ship by rescuers on Tuesday.

But the vast majority of the 456 people on board remain missing. Many were elderly tourists taking in the scenic vistas of the Yangtze on a cruise from Nanjing to the southwestern city of Chongqing.

Records from a maritime agency show the capsized ship was cited for safety violations two years ago. Authorities in Nanjing held the ship and five other Yangtze cruise vessels after it found them violating standards during a safety inspection campaign in 2013, according to a report on the city’s Maritime Safety website. It didn’t specify the Eastern Star’s violations.

The shallow-draft boat, which was not designed to withstand as heavy winds as an ocean-going vessel can, overturned in what Chinese weather authorities have called a cyclone with winds up to 80 mph (130 kph).

“The river ships tend to have a lower standard on wind-resistance and wave-resistance than ocean ships,” Zhong Shoudao, president of the Chongqing Boat Design Institute, said at a news conference along with weather and Transportation Ministry officials. “Under the special circumstance of cyclone, the pressure on the one side of the boat went beyond the standard it was designed for, resulting in the overturning of the boat.

“The boat had lifejackets and lifeboats, but due to the sudden capsizing, there was not enough time for people to put on lifejackets or for the signals to be sent out,” Zhong said.

The squad of 13 navy divers who searched the boat Tuesday — and pulled out three trapped survivors from air pockets after voices were heard through the hull — was expanded Wednesday to 202, including 45 from civilian rescue services. They were working in shifts virtually around-the-clock as part of a last-ditch attempt to find survivors, the last of which was found on Tuesday afternoon.

CCTV said rescuers were deciding whether to cut into the overturned hull — an option that would imply hopes still lingered for finding survivors trapped in air pockets — or to bring two salvage ships to the stern and bow to act as a vise keeping the craft in place while a crane pulls it upright.

Transport Ministry spokesman Xu Chengguang said divers would search the ship for as long as possible.

“Until all hope is lost and more accurate information becomes available, we will not give up on our final efforts, although I know that our colleagues at the scene are facing a great many difficulties,” Xu told reporters.

Access to the site was blocked by police and paramilitary troops stationed along the Yangtze embankment. Scores of trucks belonging to the People’s Armed Police were parked along the edge and at least two ambulances were seeing leaving the area with their lights on and sirens blaring.

Local Communist Party officials and the Foreign Ministry organized a boat trip for about four dozen journalists to a location about 100 to 200 meters (yards) from the overturned hull, where they were able to see some of the rescue work, including two men in orange life vests standing on the overturned hull.

The disaster has drawn considerable attention in Asia, and globally, and the tour was a way for normally reticent Chinese authorities to accommodate foreign media requests for access.

The rescue and salvage efforts are being run from a massive barge tethered a few kilometers (miles) upstream of the wreckage. Reached through a watery wasteland of flooded crops and trees torn in half by high winds, it was a bustle of activity, as rescuers, paramilitary troops and army and navy specialists arrived and left by smaller boat.

Huang Delong, a deckhand on a car ferry crossing the Yangtze nearby, said he was working Monday evening when the weather turned nasty ahead of the ship’s capsizing about 9:30 p.m.

“From about 9 p.m. it began raining extremely hard, then the cyclone hit and the wind was really terrifying,” Huang said while crossing the broad river in a steady drizzle Tuesday afternoon.

The survivors included the ship’s captain and chief engineer, both of whom have been taken into police custody. Some relatives have questioned whether everything was done to ensure the safety of the passengers and have demanded help from officials in Nanjing and Shanghai in unruly scenes that have drawn a heavy police response.

Wang Yi, 35, an insurance company employee in Shanghai whose father was on the Eastern Star, said that local authorities told her they would organize travel to the disaster site for up to two family members of each passenger, but that they had not yet said when that trip would take place.

State media originally said there were 458 people on board but revised that figure to 456 Wednesday. CCTV said most of the passengers were 50 to 80 years old.

The Eastern Star was 251 feet (76.5 meters) long and 36 feet (11 meters) wide, and could carry a maximum of 534 people, CCTV reported. It is owned by the Chongqing Eastern Shipping Corp., which focuses on tourism routes in the popular Three Gorges river canyon region. The company could not be reached for comment.

China’s deadliest maritime disaster in recent decades was when the Dashun ferry caught fire and capsized off Shandong province in November 1999, killing about 280.

With 26 confirmed dead and more than 410 still missing, the Eastern Star disaster could become China’s deadliest since the sinking of the SS Kiangya off Shanghai in 1948, which is believed to have killed anywhere from 2,750 to nearly 4,000 people.

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Associated Press writer Jack Chang and Ian Mader and news assistant Yu Bing in Beijing, video journalist Helene Franchineau in Jianli, and Elaine Kurtenbach in Tokyo, contributed to this report.

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GREEN BAY – A teen accused of setting an apartment complex on fire will stand trial.

Jordan Gardner-Shedrick waived a preliminary hearing Wednesday, according to online court records. An arraignment is scheduled for June 29.

The other suspect, Jesse Jones, enters a plea June 15.

Court documents say Gardner and Jones went to the Danz Avenue apartment complex to confront a rival gang member. Gardner and Jones told investigators they entered the apartment building and went into the basement, where they found spray cans marked “flammable.” They said they used a lighter to start a soaked rag on fire.

No one was injured. More than 60 people were displaced.

ORANGEVILLE, Ill. (AP) — The world’s tallest cow has died on a farm in northern Illinois after holding the record for less than a year.

Pat Hanson tells The (Freeport) Journal-Standard that her 6-foot-4 Holstein, called Blosom, died May 26 on her farm near Orangeville, just south of the Wisconsin/Illinois border.

Hanson says she’s not sure what was wrong with Blosom, but that she had the 13-year-old Holstein put down after two veterinarians said they couldn’t save her.

Hanson says Blosom was buried in her favorite pasture, with her head facing east toward the farm.

Guinness anointed Blosom the world’s tallest cow last August.

Although she’s no longer alive, the 2,000-pound cow maintains that title and will appear in the 2016 edition of the Guinness World Records book.

MADISON (AP) – Wisconsin brewers, liquor manufacturers, restaurants and the state chamber of commerce are all opposing possible changes to the state’s alcohol distribution law.

The groups have been lobbying Republicans who control the Legislature and Gov. Scott Walker in recent weeks, urging them to reject changes to the law they say are being pushed by an unnamed wholesaler.

Opponents say the changes being sought would require that a contract between a wholesaler and an alcohol supplier remain in place, even if the distributorship is transferred to another owner.

The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States says that would result in the wholesaler having a lock on a brand, giving them no incentive to keep prices competitive.

The groups are trying to stop any such provision from being added to the budget.

OSHKOSH – The U.S. Army has asked Oshkosh Defense to repair and upgrade 360 military vehicles.

The contract is part of a larger contract the company received last year to work on Mine Resistant Ambush Protected all-terrain vehicles the company originally made for the Army. Previous orders were for 500 and 300 vehicles; the Army could still ask the company to reset 1,440 more MRAPs.

The total value of the contract is now at $115 million.

The reset process, as it is called, involves inspecting the vehicles, repairing or replacing missing parts and upgrading the underbody improvement kit, automatic fire extinguishing systems as well as making safety-related upgrades.

“Oshkosh’s operational capability and expertise ensures that soldiers operating in M-ATVs have mission-ready vehicles equipped with the latest protection and technologies for a full range of missions,” John Bryant, senior vice president of defense programs at Oshkosh Defense, said in a news release. “As the OEM, Oshkosh can provide the best quality and speed for the vehicle reset – and ultimately get the vehicles back into the field where they are needed.”

Oshkosh Defense started producing M-ATVs for the Army in 2009 and is under contract to provide service until 2018.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Sorry, baby, your picture isn’t going to be on the front of any beer bottles in New Hampshire.

Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan on Tuesday vetoed a measure that would have allowed some images of minors to grace alcoholic beverage labels as long as they didn’t encourage young people to drink.

Republican state Rep. Keith Murphy, who runs a popular tavern, sponsored the bill because he wanted to be able to buy Breakfast Stout, crafted by Founders Brewery Co. in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The beer’s label depicts a chubby, Norman Rockwell-esque baby scooping oatmeal into his mouth.

Hassan said allowing the images could undermine the state’s efforts to fight underage drinking.

“Substance misuse, including alcohol misuse, continues to be one of the major public health and safety challenges facing us as a state,” Hassan said in her veto message. “Moreover, statistics suggest that New Hampshire has among the highest rates of underage drinking in the country.”

Murphy said the veto is an overreach and noted that neighboring Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont sell the beer. He also pointed out that a New Hampshire-produced craft beer, Smuttynose Baltic Porter, would have to come off the shelves because its label shows Father Time and a baby.

The federal government already prohibits alcohol labeling or advertising that targets minors.

Murphy’s bill would have given the state’s Liquor Commission discretion to approve or deny labels. He said he could understand the commission denying a label showing college kids partying but not the Breakfast Stout depiction.

“No reasonable person would believe that this label is intended to appeal to minors in any way,” he said.

But the director of enforcement and licensing for the New Hampshire Liquor Commission, James Wilson, said when the bill was introduced in January that the commission already has a “bright line standard” for labeling and was opposed to Murphy’s proposal.

MADISON (AP) – A Wisconsin Assembly committee has advanced a bill that would allow businesses to keep a supply of epinephrine injectors to be used in case of life-threatening allergic reactions.

The Health Committee unanimously approved the bill Wednesday. The committee changed the bill to make clear that businesses may offer the drug, but aren’t required to have it on hand.

Schools are already allowed to keep a supply of the auto-injectors. The bill would add camps, colleges, restaurants and other businesses to those allowed to carry and administer the drug. Auto-injectors are used to treat anaphylaxis, a potentially life-threatening allergic reaction that causes constricted airways that make it difficult to breathe.

The measure is expected to come up for an Assembly vote on Tuesday.

BERLIN (AP) — A group of Western mothers whose children have joined the Islamic State group and other extremists in Syria and Iraq appealed Wednesday for them to return home, quoting from the Quran.

In an open letter posted on social media websites, members of Mothers for Life called on their sons and daughters to recall that Islam requires them to honor their parents and spare them suffering.

“Even if you think death will give you that ‘better’ life, remember that even the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘Paradise lies at the feet of your mother,'” the group said. “By leaving us against our will to give up your own life and take those of others, you have put our struggle, pain and honor under your feet and walked over it.”

Thousands of young Western men and women have joined the Islamic State group in recent years after being recruited by other extremists, often operating online.

Mothers for Life — which has Muslim and non-Muslim members from seven countries including Canada, France and the United States — said their decision to launch the appeal on social media is part of a conscious effort to publicly challenge those who have lured their children away.

“Social media right now seems to be their strength in recruiting our youth,” said Canadian mother Chris Boudreau, whose son was killed in Syria last year. “We’ve got to fight fire with fire,” she told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.

The group also wants to help other families struggling to bring their children home, and highlight the need for politicians and security officials to take the parents of foreign fighters seriously.

Mothers for Life is run by the German Institute on Radicalization and De-radicalization Studies (GIRDS) in Berlin. It has several Muslims among its dozen members and also sought advice from Islamic scholars to challenge the religious arguments put forward by extremists.

NEW YORK (AP) – The NFL says it has chosen Yahoo as its partner in an experiment to stream a game internationally in October.

The league had announced in March that it planned to stream the Oct. 25 matchup between Buffalo and Jacksonville from London. The NFL said Wednesday it will use Yahoo’s platforms for the free broadcast.

The game starts at 9:30 a.m. EDT. It will be televised only in the local markets of the two teams.

LA CROSSE (AP) – Authorities say the Iowa woman who died in a fall from a third-floor fire escape in La Crosse was heavily intoxicated.

The La Crosse County Medical Examiner’s Office says the death of 32-year-old Robin Krabill was accidental. The La Crosse Tribune says toxicology results show she had a blood alcohol content of 0.24 percent – or three times the legal limit for driving.

The Waverly, Iowa woman was found in a walkway alley in downtown La Crosse April 27th. Police say surveillance video shows her attempting to climb the fire escape before her fall.

ARCADIA (AP) – Ashley Furniture Industries has acknowledged that it’s in “exploratory” discussions with investment banking firm Goldman Sachs, but downplays the possibility of a sale.

A statement from the Arcadia company says Goldman Sachs was hired to help the furniture maker evaluate a variety of investment alternatives and opportunities. But, CEO Todd Wanek added that no decisions have been made on a course of action.

Ashley had $4 billion in sales last year, which is twice that of its closest rivals, La-Z-Boy Inc. and Ethan Allen Interiors.

The company employs about 3,000 people in the small western Wisconsin community of Arcadia. About 400 more work at a factory in Whitehall.

LA CROSSE (AP) – A group of rail safety and environmental advocates opposed to a railroad expansion project through the La Crosse River marsh is asking a judge to pause work on a second BNSF track until the court decides whether the company’s permit is legal.

La Crosse County Commissioner Maureen Freedland and members of the grassroots organization Citizens Acting for Rail Safety filed a lawsuit in March against the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. The lawsuit claims the agency’s environmental review of the project is inadequate, and also challenges the agency’s rule for implementing the Wisconsin Environmental Policy Act.

Judge Scott Horne decided last month that the two-pronged challenge should be argued separately. He said the group has until August to file briefs on the first issue.

Contractors with the railroad company began building the second line in April after receiving a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers allowing them to fill more than 7 acres of wetlands. The work is part of a larger project to add a second track along a four-mile stretch of the line through La Crosse and is expected to be completed by September.

The group made the stay request in a motion filed Tuesday.

In the motion, the opponents argue that “irreparable harm” would be caused to the parties involved in the lawsuit and the general public if work is allowed to continue while the court is deciding the issue. And no damage award could mitigate “environmental damage that is difficult to measure in monetary terms,” it states.

“It would be difficult or impossible to undo… once you fill in the marsh and construct the track,” said Sarah Williams, staff attorney for the nonprofit Midwest Environmental Advocates, which helped the group file its lawsuit.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources plans to oppose the stay, according to Assistant Attorney General Anthony Russomanno, who’s representing the agency.

“It is DNR’s position that the permit was properly issued and complies with the law, and that therefore a stay is not warranted,” he said.

A BNSF representative declined to comment to the La Crosse Tribune.

A hearing on the stay has been set for June 22.

MADISON (AP) – A state Senate committee is scheduled to vote Thursday on a bill that would ban non-emergency abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Two Wisconsin health committees took up testimony on the fast-tracked bill during a public hearing Tuesday. Under the proposal, doctors who perform an abortion after 20 weeks in non-emergency situations could be charged with a felony and subject to $10,000 in fines or 3 ½ years in prison.

If passed, the bill will be taken up by the full Senate as early as Tuesday.

The bill’s supporters say a 20-week-old fetus can feel pain and shouldn’t be subject to abortion procedures.

Opponents contend that a fetus can’t experience pain until the third trimester begins at 27 weeks.

Gov. Scott Walker has said he would sign the bill.

OSHKOSH – The CEO of an Oshkosh aircraft manufacturer, along with a mechanic who worked for the company, were the two men killed in a crash Tuesday afternoon.

Sonex Aircraft says CEO Jeremy Monnett and assembly mechanic Mike Clark were the victims. The plane they were flying in crashed around 3:30 p.m. at the east end of a runway at Wittman Regional Airport.

The company’s statement reads, in part:

“Sonex Aircraft founder John Monnett made a statement to staff this morning that Sonex Aircraft, LLC will continue to operate despite the holes left by Jeremy and Mike’s absence. It would unquestionably be Jeremy Monnett’s wish that the Sonex company and the worldwide community of Sonex and AeroConversions customers carry-on.

“Sonex Sport Acro N123SX first flew in 2007, and has most-recently been fitted with the 100 hp AeroVee Turbo. The engine had accumulated approximately 25 hours of operation in the Sonex Aircraft test cell as part of the AeroVee Turbo development program, and approximately 50 flight hours on N123SX after moving from the test cell to the Sport Acro airframe in the spring of 2014. The engine and airframe’s performance has been flawless in all respects, including recent long cross country flights to Florida for the Sebring and Sun ‘n Fun conventions, making its return trip to Oshkosh after Sun ‘n Fun 2015. Sonex Aircraft is hopeful the investigation of Tuesday’s accident will reveal conclusive findings regarding the cause, however, there are no immediate conclusions that can be drawn.

“The Monnett family and leadership of Sonex Aircraft, LLC sincerely thank the dedicated Sonex staff, community of customers, the aviation community at-large, and the Oshkosh community for all of the support and condolences offered over the past 24 hours.”

The crash remains under investigation.

FOX 11’s Laura Smith is following up on this story and will have a full report tonight on FOX 11 News at Five.