Alaska Plane Crash

A midair plane collision in Anchorage on Friday killed seven people, including a state lawmaker who was piloting one of the aircraft, Alaska officials said.

Federal authorities on Saturday were seeking to learn what drove an airline worker to steal an empty airplane from Seattle's airport in a security scare that caused the scrambling of U.S. fighter jets and ended when the plane crashed onto a sparsely populated island.

A plane suddenly took off from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport today morning before the passengers could board and without taking permission to depart, creating a major scare, as US Air Force jets scrambled to intercept the twin turboprop aircraft.

All nine people aboard an excursion plane from a Holland America Line cruise ship that crashed on Thursday in Alaska died in the accident, the aircraft company said.

An Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman say a plane crash near the remote western Alaska village of Saint Marys has killed four of the 10 people aboard.

US authorities say an air taxi has crashed at an airport in Alaska, killing all 10 people on board.

A small airplane crashed near a suburban Anchorage airport, exploding on impact and killing all five on board.The Cessna 180 landed on railroad tracks running parallel to the Birchwood airport in Chugiak, 32 kilometers north of Anchorage, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said in an email to The Associated Press.Police spokeswoma...

The National Transportation Safety Board says it appears that five people were killed and four survived the Alaska crash of a small plane that was believed to be carrying a longtime former Republican senator and a transportation company executive.The fate of former Senator Ted Stevens and Sean O'Keefe, once a NASA director, was not known.Ted Lopatk...

Officials say a large cargo-type plane crashed in Alaska and burst into a deadly fireball that sparked a forest fire at Denali National Park.Park spokeswoman Kris Fister says there are fatalities, but it's unclear how many because "the plane pretty much disintegrated."The fire is challenging responders, who did not immediately know who owns the mul...

A midair plane collision in Anchorage on Friday killed seven people, including a state lawmaker who was piloting one of the aircraft, Alaska officials said.

Federal authorities on Saturday were seeking to learn what drove an airline worker to steal an empty airplane from Seattle's airport in a security scare that caused the scrambling of U.S. fighter jets and ended when the plane crashed onto a sparsely populated island.

A plane suddenly took off from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport today morning before the passengers could board and without taking permission to depart, creating a major scare, as US Air Force jets scrambled to intercept the twin turboprop aircraft.

All nine people aboard an excursion plane from a Holland America Line cruise ship that crashed on Thursday in Alaska died in the accident, the aircraft company said.

An Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman say a plane crash near the remote western Alaska village of Saint Marys has killed four of the 10 people aboard.

US authorities say an air taxi has crashed at an airport in Alaska, killing all 10 people on board.

A small airplane crashed near a suburban Anchorage airport, exploding on impact and killing all five on board.The Cessna 180 landed on railroad tracks running parallel to the Birchwood airport in Chugiak, 32 kilometers north of Anchorage, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said in an email to The Associated Press.Police spokeswoma...

The National Transportation Safety Board says it appears that five people were killed and four survived the Alaska crash of a small plane that was believed to be carrying a longtime former Republican senator and a transportation company executive.The fate of former Senator Ted Stevens and Sean O'Keefe, once a NASA director, was not known.Ted Lopatk...

Officials say a large cargo-type plane crashed in Alaska and burst into a deadly fireball that sparked a forest fire at Denali National Park.Park spokeswoman Kris Fister says there are fatalities, but it's unclear how many because "the plane pretty much disintegrated."The fire is challenging responders, who did not immediately know who owns the mul...