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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An aircraft crashed while attempting to land on a rural Alaska...

Cover. there's a storm here that has not been moving very much. storms don't move quickly this time of year. they are not as strong as in the wintertime but nonetheless they can suck in areas like this and give you a crosswind of 30 miles an an hour. we haven't seen visibility improve much, so fog is an issue and we haven't see much in the way of that clearing. as far as what kind of aircraft it was, it was a dhc-3, which basically, if you have seen a hollywood movie that shows somebody flying into a report airy in alaska to go on a fishing trip, that's the plane. single engine. it's got ponto...

Down. as you mentioned, sean o'keefe also on that plane. i know sean o'keefe, he was an nbc news consultant back during the return to -- return to space mission in 2005 with the space shuttle "discovery." he is a nice, good-hearted person, if i could say so. and his friends and family are praying for him, as everybody who was on board that plane right now, their friends and family praying for them, but the plane itself, can i just mention the plane itself is a dhc-3 a fixed-had wing with single-engine otter, a real workhorse plane that flies in and out of alaska. it has the capability, in fact...