A sightseeing plane crashed on Thursday in southeast Alaska,
killing all the nine people aboard, but stormy weather was preventing the
immediate recovery of the bodies. "We
have nine fatalities," said Clint Johnson, head of the National Transportation
Safety Board’s Alaska office.
Rain and wind forced an end to recovery efforts Thursday
night in the rugged terrain about 20 miles northeast of Ketchikan. Officials
would mount a recovery attempt again on Friday, he said. There was no immediate
indication of why the DeHavilland DHC-3 Otter turboprop crashed. It was found
Thursday against the granite rock face of a cliff, 800 feet above Ella Lake.
Johnson said it was too soon to know circumstances of the
crash, including whether the plane flew into the cliff.
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