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Ah Leo wasn't the only one that
died in a plane crash in two thousand

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one. I remember another singer being
pronounced dead in a plane crash in two

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thousand one named Melanie Thornton. I
Love How You Love Me? She sang

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a song titled love How You Love
Me. On the night of November twenty

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fourth, two thousand one, Thornton
was one of the twenty four people who

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died in the plane crash of Cross
Air flight three five nine seven near Zurich,

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Switzerland, at the age of thirty
four. The main cause of the

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accident was the captain descending the plane
too early, causing it to crash into

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a forest area when it got too
close to the ground. Thornton had given

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a performance in Leipzig and two hours
later she took the flight from Berlin to

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Zurich for upcoming radio and TV performances. Among others, the broadcast Die Bar

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on TV three, which was canceled
to promote her new single Wonderful Dream,

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Holidays Are Coming, a Christmas ballad
recorded for a German Coca Cola TV commercial,

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and her album Ready to Fly.
Thornton was laid to final rest in

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her native South Carolina at Mount Pleasant
Memorial Gardens in Mount Pleasant, Charleston County,

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South Carolina. Melanie Thornton was the
lead singer of the euro dance group

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Labouch from nineteen ninety four to two
thousand, alongside American rapper and backing vocalist

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Laine McCrae. Their two most successful
singles, Sweet Dreams and Be My Lover,

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was released in nineteen ninety four and
nineteen ninety five, respectively. After

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leaving the group, Thornton began a
solo career and found success primarily in European

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countries before her death in two thousand
one. Her solo songs include Love,

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How You Love Me, Heartbeat Making, ooh Ou talking about love, and

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Wonderful Dream Holidays Are Coming, I'm
Gale, Nobles, you're listening to the

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cat There to day's topic. Melanie
Thornton Rest in peace.