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December, 1978, but billy joel has performed monthly concerts here. every one of the shows sold out, and to mark 100, a little help from a friend. >> i want to bring out an old friend. we go back a long ways. he's an oscar winner, a grammy winner. >> reporter: the audience knew it was the boss. ♪ billy joel and bruce springsteen performing "10th avenue freezeout" changing the lyrics a little. and during the concert, a moment of candor from the new york icon. >> this is beyond my wildest expectations. i want to thank you all for coming to our shows. >> wish i had been there. thanks for watchi...

By 7:30 p.m., a passing aircraft spotted wreckage and called for search teams. >> i'm out in this area, about 17 miles north of dillingham, and i've got a 40-degree slope up the mountain itself -- >> reporter: a private rescue team managed to reach the site before nightfall. miraculously, they found survivors. but they spent the night on the mountain. weather was so bad it would be a full 12 hours after the crash until the national guard could lower in a medical team by helicopter. >> they worked and pulling four survivors from the wreckage, transported them back to dillingham. >> reporter: de...

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...

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...