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In the corruption probe up here in alaska. i think today, no matter what side of the aisle you may fall on, this is certainly a very, very big loss to alaska, not to mention the other four people on that plane. >> jason lamb, a reporter with ktuu in anchorage. i know it's a very busy night of coverage for you all in alaska, thanks for taking the time to join us this evening. >> thanks, rachel. so because we here at the rachel maddow show strive to be both a very good place to work and a very difficult place to work, we have dispatched two rachel maddow show staffers this week to go to the me...

One out of every 58 alaskans is a registered pilot. that's because although the state is twice the size of texas, it has just five highways in the whole state. not one of them connects the eastern part of the state to the western part of the state. in a state that is 663,000 square miles, there are 2,000 miles of roads. according to the director of the alaskan aviation museum, more than 70% of alaskan communities are accessible only by plane. one of the many, many, many federally funded projects that ted stevens secured for alaska when he was senator was a federal subsidy program for air trave...

Particular plane, the one that crashed, was owned by the telecommunications company gci. in 2002 another of these same kind of planes owned by the same telecommunications company flipped over while landing on a lake. the pilot drowned and a passenger was hurt. obviously the coverage of this horrible crash is being dominated by obituaries for senator stevens and others who died on board that plane. one of the most amazing things about the story, though, is that there are four people who survived the crash. they survived the crash and they survived 15 hours waiting at the scene to be evacuated. ...

Country. one out of every 58 alaskans is a registered pilot. that's because although the state is twice the size of texas, it has just five highways in the whole state. not one of them connects the eastern part of the state to the western part of the state. in a state that is 663,000 square miles, there are 2,000 miles of roads. according to the director of the alaskan aviation museum, more than 70% of alaskan communities are accessible only by plane. one of the many, many, many federally funded projects that ted stevens secured for alaska when he was senator was a federal subsidy program for ...

Landed at the anchorage airport in december, 1978. the airport was later renamed for senator stevens. six years before that crash, another high-profile alaskan politician also died in an aviation accident. that was october, 1972, when democratic congressman nick begich, whose son mark is now the state's junior senator, was campaigning with the house majority leader, hale boggs which their plane disappeared. the plane was never found. two peaks in the area, two mountains they believe to have disappeared in, were renamed mt. begich and mt. boggs in honor of the two men that were killed in the fl...