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Report: CEO made wrong decision before plane crash

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Published September 9, 2014 8:06pm ET
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Report: CEO made wrong decision before plane crash
FILE - In this March 2003 file photo, Micron Technology CEO Steve Appleton, left, speaks accompanied by Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo in Idaho. A report released Monday, Sept. 8, 2014 says the likely causes of a 2012 airplane crash that killed the head of the memory chip maker are a decrease in engine power during takeoff and the Appleton's ill-fated decision to turn the experimental plane around rather than make an emergency landing, federal investigators say. (AP Photo/The Idaho Statesman, Chris Butler) | Chris Butler

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The likely causes of a 2012 airplane crash that killed the head of memory chip maker Micron are a decrease in engine power during takeoff and the man’s ill-fated decision to turn the experimental plane around rather than make an emergency landing, federal investigators say.

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