UPDATE: Five Dead, One Missing in Southeast Flight-Seeing Midair Collision

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UPDATE: Five Dead, One Missing in Southeast Flight-Seeing Midair Collision

  Five people are reported dead and one other missing following a mid-air collision of two aircraft carrying sight-seers near Ketchikan on Monday. Ten of 11 persons aboard a de Havilland Otter DHC-3 were transported to the Ketchikan hospital after that aircraft and a single-engine de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver impacted over George Inlet after a […]

Nine Holland America Passengers Die in Promech Air Crash in Southeast Alaska

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Nine Holland America Passengers Die in Promech Air Crash in Southeast Alaska

Nine people, eight of whom were passengers on the Holland America Cruise ship Westerdam are dead in a crash of a de Havilland Otter operated by Promech Air in the Ella Lake area troopers report. A call went in to Ketchikan-based Alaska State Troopers at 2:06 pm on Thursday reporting an overdue aircraft. A Temsco helicopter […]