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• NTSB releases documents on Butte plane crash

  December 3, 2010 in Region Just before a plane carrying 14 people crashed short of a southwestern Montana runway last year, killing everybody on board, the pilot told air traffic controllers that he had “one …

• Former NASA chief, son survive Alaska plane crash

  August 10, 2010 in Nation/World, Region Former NASA chief Sean O’Keefe and his teenage son survived a small plane crash in Alaska that killed former Sen. Ted Stevens, his company said today. 1

• Helicopter broke apart, report says

  June 16, 2010 in City on Page A6 The National Transportation Safety Board released its preliminary findings into the investigation of a helicopter that crashed into a Spokane Valley neighborhood this month, killing a student pilot. According to …

• Probe begins in helicopter crash

  June 4, 2010 in City on Page A7 Federal investigators scoured the scene Thursday of a fatal helicopter crash in a backyard in Spokane Valley. Peter N. Hecker, 29, a computer technician employed by the Idaho Department of … 1

• Crash victim remembered as ‘excellent pilot’

  June 3, 2010 in City A student helicopter pilot who died in a crash Wednesday near Felts Field has been identified as Peter N. Hecker, 29.

• Private plane most likely broke up in flight, crash investigator says

  February 20, 2009 in City on Page A13 BOISE – A small plane that crashed this week in southwestern Idaho apparently broke up in flight, an investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board says. Another pilot flying a …