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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I’m DFW too, and it is nice to be able to get to everything without a plane. I love Las Vegas, but you can make that with 2 people non-stop taking turns or 1 person with a 1 night stay.
"Beaver is the best"??
Is that an "inside Alaska" joke?
Please explain.
Prayers up for victims & families.
Check out the age of the B-52 fleet some time...
Cheers!
Condolences to the surviving relatives and friends of those killed in this crash.
Clarence “Kelly” Johnson, writing in his memoirs, “More Than My Share”, stated that pilot and innovator Wiley Post’s plane was terribly nose-heavy. WP wanted more horsepower because of so many short runways and (as you noted) mountainous terrain, and CKJ couldn’t offer any advice on fixing the problem, other than going back to the original engine for that design. :’)
FOIA and you get the whole thing.
You want to listen to hours of banter and boring stuff, or when you seek the cause do you want to listen to the relevant parts. Up to you.
And you do know, not all aircraft have CVRs, right?
Yes I know that, but you’re wrong. You will not get AK261’s or USAir 427’s no matter what you do. You’ll get a transcript, but not the recording. People have tried, a lot, and it’s not done. It’s entirely up to the FAA/company’s discretion and they figured out that it’s bad for business and put a stop to it.
Thank you, Lucy. A lot of lefitsts hoped Palin was on board.
NTSB makes the call.
Not FAA.
What is your point, again, or do you have one?
The point is that you will not get the actual recordings, I don’t care what alphabet agency you’re talking about dealing with.
Got it.
I won’t bother you with facts.
Have a nice day.
Unless you can get AK261’s onboard actual recording, or any other unreleased ones, your words mean nothing. Nobody gets them, period.
If you manage to, I’ll be in awe. I think we both know it’s impossible though, so I’m not sure why you’re going on about it.
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