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Whatever reason, fly into the mountain side. they are saying that flying under visual flight rules in a day when that was not recommended was not a good idea, but they cannot come to a specific cause of the crash that killed former senator ted stevens of alaska. more in just a moment.
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...
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...
Of 3 miles, fog and lis -- jon: 3 miles is considered reasonably good visibility. you can flight under visual flight rules if you have 3 miles visibility. again in a place like alaska that can change very quickly and if you've got gusting winds as you were talking about, you know, if the wind is gusting 23 miles an hour and funnels through a pass all of a sudden you can get wind that is much, much stronger than that. there has got to be much to be determined about how high they were. it raises the point, 43 degrees apparently at airport, but that suggests that five thousand feet up from there ...
President bush, saying barbara and i mourn the loss of ted stevens and sends our most sincere condolences to his family. there have been a lot of questions about what the weather conditions were at the time that flight took off. the weather channel's dr. greg forbes joins us now with information on that fatal crash, what can you tell us? >> weather conditions were deteriorating rapidly, right at dillingham, they were just marginal, about three miles to seven mile visibility. and the ridiculous bases were pretty low. that seems to be the issue, because the pilot was flying under visible flight ...