Alaska Pilot Recounts Wilderness Ordeal
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Last week, Michael Holman landed his plane on a deserted part of the Koyuktolik Bay shore, hoping to do a little beachcombing.
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The travails of passengers on a stranded flight showed how strained the system is at times when unpredictable factors like bad weather bring extra stress.
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Seventy-five years ago, aviator Charles Lindbergh turned the controls of his pontoon plane over to his co-pilot, wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh, while flying above Iceland. He thrust a makeshift metal arm holding a sticky glass plate from the cockpit. He wanted to see if the winds high aloft the Earth...
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By JEANNETTE J. LEE  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - With dozens of homes and cabins already destroyed by wildfire, crews worked Sunday to protect hundreds of others tucked in the hills of the scenic Kenai Peninsula.
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By STORY AND PHOTOS BY SANDY NELSON  The Colorado Plateau  Seven thousand feet above the Colorado River, the windshield of a single-propellor Cessna reduces millions of acres of sandstone wilderness to a fluid, rectangular canvas.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - About 150 people have been  sent to an Aleutian island to try to clean up fuel oil  streaming from a wrecked cargo ship, but harsh weather has kept  most from the spill site, federal and state officials said on  Saturday.
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A pilot who survived a light aircraft crash in Snowdonia, which killed his friend, speaks publicly for the first time.
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A 67-year-old pilot whose small plane crashed in the Pacific was spotted treading water about eight hours after his aircraft went down, and a rescue ship was on its way, Coast Guard officials said Tuesday.
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By Ann Potempa, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 17--Alaska astronaut Bill Oefelein will have a unique conversation with home Wednesday: Students in Kenai will ask the space shuttle pilot questions, and he'll answer them -- live from space.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - About 150 people have been  sent to an Aleutian island to try to clean up fuel oil  streaming from a wrecked cargo ship, but harsh weather has kept  most from the spill site, federal and stated officials said on  Saturday.
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Description: A freighter carrying more than 400,000 gallons of fuel oil breaks up near a national wildlife refuge on the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
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When the fog rolls into the mountains of western Montana, all a pilot can do is climb and hope nothing emerges from the clouds in his path. This week, something did, and all five people aboard a small plane were given up for dead.
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Completing the first leg of a quest for a $10 million prize, a test pilot took a privately financed plane past the cusp of space on Wednesday.
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A helicopter pilot who rescued a family from an overflowing river, then sought donations for them in exchange for a bird's-eye view of flood-devastated areas is under investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration.
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IQALUIT, Nunavut Territory -- Simon Nattaq lost both feet to frostbite when his snowmobile crashed through the ice, made thin by rising Arctic temperatures.
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By RAY ROUTHIER Staff Writer  To Sam Clark, a Mainer trying to build a wilderness camp business in Alaska, there's one difference between the two states that jumps out: In Maine, even the wildest parts, you are almost always near a road that leads somewhere.
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On the military plane that crossed the ocean at night, the wounded lay in stretchers stacked three high. The drone of engines was broken by the occasional sound of moaning. Sedated and sleeping, Pfc. Joshua Calloway was at the top of one stack last September. Unlike the others around him, Callowa...