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24 hours of crazy for U-M basketball team

Michigan coach John Beilein discusses Wednesday's plane crash following the Wolverines' win over Illinois in the Big Ten tournament on Thursday, March 9, 2017. Mark Snyder

WASHINGTON — “Get down!” somebody screamed.

The airplane holding the Michigan basketball team skidded down the runway at Willow Run Airport on Wednesday afternoon, passing over a road, blasting through a chain-link fence, crashing into a ditch and coming to stop before a bunch of trees.