Washington: 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 Lopatkiewicz, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, told The Associated Press in Washington that reports from Alaska authorities were that nine people were aboard the aircraft and that "it appears that there are five fatalities."
He said the NTSB which is sending a team to the crash site in southwest Alaska.
The fate of former Senator Ted Stevens and Sean O'Keefe, once a NASA director, was not known.
Ted Lopatkiewicz, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, told The Associated Press in Washington that reports from Alaska authorities were that nine people were aboard the aircraft and that "it appears that there are five fatalities."
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