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(AMM) Calif. steel distribution exec Robert Borrmann said killed in plane crash

September 03, 2010 - 21:10 GMT Location: CHICAGO

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Robert E. "Bob" Borrmann, founder and president of Borrmann Steel Co., East Palo Alto, Calif., died Thursday in an airplane that crashed 30 seconds after takeoff from San Carlos Airport en route to San Martin, local media reported.

"The aircraft had departed from San Carlos Airport and crashed into a pond about 30 seconds later. Because it is a fatal accident, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has taken over the investigation," a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Friday.

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