(Duplicate Squawk Submitted) All Nine on Sightseeing Plane That Crashed in Alaska Are Dead All nine people aboard a cruise excursion plane that crashed in southeastern Alaska Thursday are dead, the Alaska Division of State Troopers said. Search and rescue teams reached the crash site near a granite rock face about 800 feet above Ella Lake in the Misty Fjords area in Ketchikan Borough at 5:59 p.m. local time (9:59 p.m. ET) and confirmed that all nine aboard were killed, the division said in a statement. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cruise-line-excursion-plane-crashes-nine-aboard-alaska-n382166

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We've still got "milk runs" in Alaska...try Anchorage to Ketchikan...it's Anchorage-Juneau-Sitka-Petersburg-Wrangell-Ketchikan...a 775 sm trip in about 5.5-6 hours

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Nice concept...they're even planes available in "the valley" not too far from Anchorage..you might try and see if you can entice one of the FBO's at Merrill Field near downtown Anchorage...

(Written on 2014/05/10)(Permalink)

On Alaska Airlines, the last several times I've flown, they are now boarding customers who have nothing for the overhead bins right after the pre-board and first class customers...

(Written on 2014/03/08)(Permalink)

Southwest is actually discontinuing service to Branson and 2 other destinations later this year..

(Written on 2014/01/12)(Permalink)

I'm forever amazed at the narrow mindedness of pilots, and their ilk...it's no wonder why I left the "good life" of commercial aviation for law. I now have afforded myself a much wider variation of folks I can choose to work with. The Phil's of this world drove me out of it. I spent 11 years dealing with narrow minded right wing but cases such as he, and couldn't take anymore. I flew for a legacy carrier (most of my commercial time in 737's). I won't go on, but I would not want to try and rise through the ranks at the carrier I was associated with as a person of color!!! It's sad, but I've said erer since, "I love flying, but I couldn't get along with my fellow pilots".

(Written on 2013/12/04)(Permalink)

(Duplicate Squawk Submitted) Russia says pilot of Kazan crash had put the plane into nosedive (Reuters) - The pilot of an airliner that crashed near the Russian city of Kazan killing 50 people had pushed the steering column to pitch it into a nosedive, crash investigators said on Tuesday, citing data recorder analysis. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/19/us-russia-crash-idUSBRE9AI0UC20131119

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In spite of the certain negative posts on here...I applaud the passengers on that flight. It is rare, in this day and age, to see such a group stand up for what they believe in, for what is right!

(Written on 2013/11/15)(Permalink)

(Duplicate Squawk Submitted) Police identify passenger who fell from plane near Miami Police on Friday identified the name of a 42-year-old man who jumped or fell from a small-single engine plane at 2,000 feet as the pilot was approaching a Miami area airport, but authorities have not recovered his body. The victim was identified as Gerardo Nales of Key Biscayne, Fla. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/15/miami-plane-fall-passenger-search/3574673/

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(Duplicate Squawk Submitted) Passengers in emergency landing leave AK airport ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A San Francisco-bound Delta Air Lines plane departed from a remote Alaska community near the Aleutian Islands Wednesday afternoon, 10 hours after its passengers' original jet made an emergency landing there. http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/Passengers-in-emergency-landing-leave-AK-airport-4939765.php

(Written on 2013/10/30)(Permalink)