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an ice-free port south of Anchorage. In the meantime, enough for 30 people was found at an Anchorage hospital. It still had ...

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The wreckage of a small plane that went missing in the United States with 10 people on board has been found with no survivors, authorities have said. The United States Coast Guard in Alaska said on ...

The small commuter aircraft was found Friday about 34 miles southeast of Nome, the flight’s intended ... that is critical to the community’s water plant,” the nonprofit said Friday night.

A disproportionate number of air taxi and commuter plane accidents occur in Alaska compared to other U.S. states, the U.S. government's National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health says.

Adams added that although crews are searching land and sea, 'we're hoping the plane is omn land, being in the water would be the worst-case scenario.' The Nome Police Department urged the public ...

The flight, operated by Bering Air, was traveling from Unalakleet to Nome in Western Alaska when ... but will fly a grid pattern over the water and shoreline in attempts to locate the plane.