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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...