Former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens & former NASA Chief Sean O’Keefe were on board deadly plane crash near Dillingham, Alaska Monday night

Deadly airplane crash near Dillingham, Alaska Monday night in Alaska - NTSB says 5 of 9 onboard dead - Former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens and former NASA Chief Sean O’Keefe were on board, their condition unknown
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
11:30am CDT
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NTSB LAUNCHES TEAM TO INVESTIGATE AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT IN ALASKA
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The National Transportation Safety Board has launched a Go Team to investigate last night's airplane crash near Dillingham, Alaska.
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At about 8:00pm Alaska Daylight Time, a DeHavilland DHC-3T (N455A) crashed 10 miles northwest of Aleknagik, Alaska. Reports are that 5 of the 9 persons on board died in the accident.
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Senior air safety investigator Clint Johnson, from the NTSB's Anchorage regional office, will serve as Investigator-in-Charge. He will be assisted by investigators from the Alaska office and from NTSB headquarters in Washington, D.C.
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NTSB Chairman Deborah A.P. Hersman is accompanying the team and will serve as spokesperson for the on-scene investigation. Terry Williams is the NTSB press officer traveling with the team. The full team is expected to arrive in Dillingham around mid-day today.
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Contact information for the team will be released when it is available...

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NTSB Press Contact:
(In Washington)
Keith Holloway
keith.holloway@ntsb.gov
202-314-6100 / 202-314-6100
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NTSB
National Transportation Safety Board
http://www.ntsb.gov/
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-- UPDATE --
11:50am CDT
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* Local Alaska news agencies are now sadly reporting that former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens is one of the dead
But...
> Source of KTUU report that Stevens is dead says he isn't sure
Read more HERE
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-- UPDATE --

6:50pm CDT

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Family spokesman confirms Ted Stevens was among the five reported dead - Former NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe and his son, Kevin have been reported as injured

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* FoxNews.com brings us the following report that goes in part like this... Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, one of the longest-serving senators in U.S. history and a tireless advocate for his state, was killed Monday in a plane crash southwest of Anchorage... Former chief of staff Mitch Rose, a spokesman for the family, confirmed to Fox News that Stevens was among the five dead. He was 86...

Read the rest HERE

Above link has news video

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AubreyJ.........

NATO Troops Free Abducted New York Times Reporter Stephen Farrell In Deadly Early Morning Raid

NATO Troops Free Abducted New York Times Reporter Stephen Farrell In Deadly Early Morning Raid
Wednesday, September 09, 2009

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NATO troops have freed Stephen Farrell, a New York Times reporter, who was kidnapped last Saturday along with his Afghan interpreter Mohammad Sultan Munadi by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan... They were abducted Saturday while reporting on the aftermath of a NATO air strike in the northern province of Kunduz. At least three were killed in the early morning raid including Mr. Munadi who sadly was shot dead as he ran for safety... A British soldier and one civilian were the two others killed in the raid.
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Mr. Farrell has been kidnapped one time before... back in 2004 if I’m correct, while reporting near Fallujah, Iraq.

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AubreyJ.........

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TimesOnline.co.uk has this informative report up on their website this early Wednesday afternoon and it starts off like this... Gordon Brown approved a mission to rescue the British journalist Stephen Farrell in which a member of the Special Forces was killed this morning, The Times has learnt... Plans for the raid, in which Farrell’s Afghan interpreter, a civilian and dozens of Taleban fighters were also killed, were drawn up by British Special Forces commanders in Kabul during a weekend of secret planning... Lieutenant-General Jim Dutton, a Royal Marine and deputy commander of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force, headed the team and Mr. Brown, David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, and Bob Ainsworth, the Defence Secretary, were kept informed of what was being planned... The Director Special Forces, a major-general who cannot be identified, has a direct phone link to the Prime Minister and would have informed Mr. Brown in person of the risks involved. Whitehall sources confirmed that Mr. Brown had given his approval for the rescue mission to go ahead...
Read the rest at link below...
Gordon Brown ordered mission to free kidnapped reporter Stephen Farrell
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Post update:
Thursday, September 10, 2009
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Our friend, Amy Procter at ‘Bottom Line Up Front’, brings us this informative report. Be sure to click it out at link below...
Gordon Brown Botches Rescue of NYT Reporter, Killing British Special Forces and Afghan Translator
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