ANCHORAGE (Reuters) - The surviving pilot in last week's fatal mid-air plane collision in Alaska saw a flash just before the two planes collided with a "large, loud impact," according to a National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report issued on Wednesday. Six people die...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The commuter flight that crashed on Alaska sea ice last week, killing all 10 aboard, was part of the workhorse network of short-hop flights that people in the immense and rugged state rely on to get to medical appo...
Deals with the effort of Alaska Airlines company to restore its credibility with its employees and customers after the January 2000 crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261. Details on the airlines' traffic in February and March 2000; Problems encountered by Alaska Airlines during an investigation of ...
Air Canada B788 over Gulf of Alaska on Apr 26th 2015, hydraulic leak An Air Canada Boeing 787-800, registration C-GHQQ performing flight AC-3 from Vancouver,BC (Canada) to Tokyo Narita (Japan), was enroute at FL360… Incident Published: Apr 30, 2015 Air Canada E190 near Winnipeg ...
The plane, which belonged to Security Aviation, an Anchorage-based air charter company, left Anchorage on Friday evening to pick up a patient from a medical center in Seward city in southern Alaska, the ADN said. There was no patient on the ill-fated aircraft at the time of the crash, ...
The impact site is known to be on base within the fence line of Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, officials confirmed. In video of the crash, the aircraft can be seen falling from the sky while the pilot ejects from the plane before the crash. ...
Experts regularly highlight that plane travel is overwhelmingly safe, but the crowded airspace around Reagan National can challenge even the most experienced pilots. ___ Associated Press writers Jacques Billeaud in Phoenix and Becky Bohrer Juneau, Alaska, contributed. Most read Pope Francis’ d...
In January, a door plug blew off a 737 Max during an Alaska Airlines flight. Federal regulators responded by imposing limits on Boeing aircraft production that they said would remain in place until they felt confident about manufacturing safety at the company. In July, Boeing agreed to plead gu...
All families of passengers on the missing flight “have been notified,” the fire department said Friday, without elaborating; no names have been released. The passengers on the plane are all adults, Alaska State Troopers Lt. Ben Endres said at the news conference. “Please keep families in y...
National Transportation Safety Board (NTDB) has released its final report on the January 5, 2008 Servant Air crash that killed six people and injured four others at Kodiak, Alaska. According to the NTSB report, the Piper PA-31-350 crash was caused by a faulty nose baggage door latching ...