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How Michigan basketball plane crash changed John Beilein and his wife

Detroit Free Press

We caught up with the coach and his wife a couple of months after the scary plane crash at Willow Run

Kathleen Beilein was uneasy as she rode the team bus to the airport. It got worse as she boarded the plane.

Earlier that morning, 57-m.p.h. winds had besieged southeastern Michigan’s power grid. Tens of thousands lost power. At Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor, her husband’s basketball team had to practice in the dark.

Now, here they were, the team, the coaches, the staff, and the families, set to take off as those same winds besieged their jet.