JOUR 61

Leads Exercise #2 -- Air Crash

Write a one- or two-sentence hard news lead using most or all of this information (if it doesn't all fit in the lead, you might also give me the start of paragraph two):

What:  An airplane crashed. The crash killed all 131 people on board.

Who: A US Air airplane.

When: Today, so write it as yesterday (it'll be "yesterday" by the time the paper comes out). The crash happened as the plane was getting ready (find a better verb) to land.

Where: Outside Pittsburgh. The plane was coming from Chicago.

Why: Don't know, so don't use it in the lead.

How: Right into the ground. Find a strong verb.

Also:  Worst air disaster/crash in the United States in the past three years.