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Morehard. joining us is jason lamb, a reporter in anchorage, alaska. jason, thanks very much for joining us this evening. i appreciate your time. >> reporter: thanks, rachel. >> what do we know about the condition this evening of the four survivors? >> reporter: well, that's something we really don't know a lot about at this hour. we do know there have been four survivors, as you've said, three of them were taken on a c-130 jet -- c-130 plane. one of them was actually taken on a private air ambulance. all of them are in anchorage at a hospital there right now, but as far as the conditions, we'...

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. they were flown aboard a coast guard c-130 at 10:00 a.m...

Owned the plane that crashed and the fishing lodge from which it departed for this trip. when the plane did not arrive at its destination, volunteer pilots flew out over the flight path to investigate what might have happened. they found the plane's wreckage on a remote rocky mountain side sometime after 7:00 p.m. last night. because of low visibility and poor weather conditions, it wasn't until about 12 hours later that the alaskan national guard and the coast guard were able to reach the crash scene. before the coast guard and the national guard were able to arrive this morning, this is rema...

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. 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 people killed in that flight. these are obviously an awful...

The fishing lodge from which it departed for this trip. when the plane did not arrive at its destination, volunteer pilots flew out over the flight path to investigate what might have happened. they found the plane's wreckage on a remote rocky mountain side sometime after 7:00 p.m. last night. because of low visibility and poor weather conditions, it wasn't until about 12 hours later that the alaskan national guard and the coast guard were able to reach the crash scene. before the coast guard and the national guard were able to arrive this morning, this is remarkable, there are reports that fi...