Posted on 08/10/2010 4:00:01 AM PDT by tlb
JUNEAU, Alaska - Authorities said Tuesday that a plane believed to be carrying eight people has crashed in southwest Alaska.
Alaska National Guard spokesman Maj. Guy Hayes said the Guard was called to the area about 20 miles north of Dillingham at about 7 p.m. Monday after a passing aircraft saw the wreckage.
Hayes says there are possible fatalities. State and federal officials say severe weather has hampered the rescue operation.
Hayes says about five good Samaritans were on scene early Tuesday helping the crash victims. He says he was told by Alaska State Troopers that there were "eight or nine" people on board, though a spokeswoman for the troopers, Megan Peters, refused to comment.
The aircraft is a 1957 DeHavilland DHC-3 Otter registered to Anchorage-based communications company GCI, the Federal Aviation Administration told the Anchorage Daily News. A woman at the Regional Operations Center told The Associated Press all further information was pending notification of next of kin.
Dillingham is located in northern Bristol Bay, about 325 miles southwest of Anchorage.
According to the Anchorage Daily News, former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens was reportedly traveling to a GCI-owned lodge in the area and friends are concerned he may have been on the downed plane.
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God speed everyone who was on that plane.
Nothing on Fox News yet.
I used to take a lot of booze+xanax to fly, since 9/11 that won’t do it.
Sure hope this isn’t another awful nightmare.
Nope, I’m not gonna say it.
I’ll admit I thought about it, but no. I’m not gonna say it.
You might want to get this on breaking
does it involve a bridge?
other news stories online says that Ted Steven is feared dead.
Who was the news host who lost her dad during an Alaskian plane crash.
Cokie Roberts???
Heaven is a series of tubes.
bTTT
Lemme put it this way, CVR’s aren’t released cause the FAA runs things and they know if people hear the drawn out horro of crashes a lot less people would fly and that would cost $$$$.
Hale Boggs’ daughter.
Thanks, couldn’t remember the fathers name.
Fox only interrupts its broadcasts for car chases.
Serious news is not a priority.
Sadly, we still need CNN for breaking news.
I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps they do not want to lead with the report until Stevens is confirmed to be on the flight.
Is Fox even reporting on the plane crash.
Hubby still sleeping so I have not turned on the TV.
thanks
Nope nothing. They are not even reporting on the plane crash which in itself is a newsworthy item.
Would be strange if Stevens dies in a plane crash because he has an airport named after him.
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