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• Float plane flips landing on Hayden Lake

  May 4, 2012 in Idaho on Page A5 Two men in a float plane were rescued Thursday by workers at the Hayden Lake Marina after the plane flipped over in the lake. An instructor and a student were …

• 3 killed in small plane crash near North Bend

  February 15, 2012 in Region NORTH BEND, Wash. — Three people have been killed in the crash of a small plane near North Bend.

• Micron CEO dies in a plane crash

  February 3, 2012 in Business BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Steve Appleton, the chief executive officer and chairman of Micron, has died in a small plane crash in Boise. He was 51. 3

• Russian jet crash kills 43, many top hockey stars

  September 7, 2011 in Sports, Nation/World A private Russian jet carrying a top ice hockey team slammed into a riverbank moments after takeoff today, killing at least 43 people in one of the worst plane crashes …

• WWII B-17 bomber consumed by fire near Chicago

  June 13, 2011 in Nation/World A B-17 bomber dating to World War II apparently made an emergency landing today in a cornfield outside Chicago before it was consumed by fire while the seven people aboard … 3

• 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 …

• Plane crash near Coeur d’Alene kills father, son

  September 18, 2010 in Idaho on Page B1 A plane crash south of Coeur d’Alene Friday killed a father and son from Basin, Wyoming, officials announced today.

• Idaho crop duster walks away from crash uninjured

  August 19, 2010 in Idaho, Region Authorities say a 40-year-old pilot whose crop duster crashed in a field in North Idaho walked away from the incident unharmed.

• Survivors of Alaska plane crash spent cold night

  August 11, 2010 in Region Former Sen. Ted Stevens lay dead in the mangled fuselage of the plane. A 13-year-old boy escaped death but watched his father die a few feet away. Medical workers spent …

• Alaska’s Stevens dies in air crash

  August 11, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 DILLINGHAM, Alaska – An amphibious plane carrying former Sen. Ted Stevens crashed into a remote mountainside during a fishing trip, killing the state’s most beloved political figure and four others … 3

• 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

• Spokane man among 3 killed in Colorado plane crash

  August 6, 2010 in Region Authorities say two people from California and one from Spokane died when their single-engine plane crashed and burned Wednesday in the northern Colorado mountains.

• 4 killed in plane crash at Alaska military base

  July 29, 2010 in Region Four airmen were killed when a cargo plane crashed during a training run at an Alaska Air Force base, sending a fireball hundreds of feet into the air, military authorities …

• Pilot hospitalized after crash at Felts Field

  July 28, 2010 in City on Page A5 A pilot was taken to the hospital Tuesday morning after his single-engine plane crash-landed on its belly short of the runway at Felts Field in northeast Spokane. Assistant Fire Chief …

• Plane crash lands at Felts Field; pilot taken to hospital

  July 27, 2010 in City A pilot was taken to the hospital this morning after his plane crash landed at Felts Field in northeast Spokane. 3

• One killed, one hurt when plane crashes

  July 7, 2010 in City on Page A5 One man is dead and another was seriously injured after their plane became tangled in a power line north of Keller, Wash., and crashed, according to the Colville Tribal Police …

• Plane crash near Keller kills one, seriously injures another

  July 6, 2010 in City One man is dead and another seriously injured after their plane became tangled in a power line north of Keller, Wash., according to the Colville Tribal Police Department. 4

• Pilot lands plane on Interstate 90

  July 6, 2010 in City on Page A5 A pilot forced to make an emergency landing on the largely deserted Interstate 90 near Post Falls on Sunday night just missed a roadway bridge and power lines, authorities said … 1

• Plane that made emergency landing removed from I-90

  July 5, 2010 in News, Idaho, Region Four people escaped injury Sunday night when their plane lost power and pilot Michael Eller of Newman Lake was forced to make an emergency landing on I-90 near Post Falls. 4

• Polish president, 96 others dead in plane crash

  April 10, 2010 in News, Nation/World SMOLENSK, Russia (AP) — Polish President Lech Kaczynski and some of the country’s highest military and civilian leaders died on Saturday when the presidential plane crashed as it came in … 8

• Official: Plane crash pilot left anti-IRS Web note

  February 18, 2010 in Nation/World A software engineer furious with the Internal Revenue Service plowed his small plane into an office building housing nearly 200 federal tax employees on Thursday, officials said, setting off a … 3

• Jetliner crashes near Tehran, killing all 168 people on board

  July 16, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 TEHRAN, Iran – A Russian-made jetliner carrying 168 people nose-dived into a field after taking off from the Iranian capital on Wednesday in a fiery crash that shredded the aircraft …

• Report: Pilot asked to divert, gave no reason

  April 2, 2009 in Region A preliminary report released Thursday on the Montana plane crash that killed 14 people two weeks ago said the pilot twice asked air traffic controllers to divert from the flight’s …

• Mont. crash investigation looks at ice, weight

  March 23, 2009 in Region WASHINGTON — Speculation over the crash of a single-engine turboprop plane into a cemetery shifted to ice on the wings Monday after it became less likely that overloading was to …

• NTSB: Plane crew saw significant ice before crash

  February 13, 2009 in Nation/World A federal official says the crew of a commuter plane that crashed near Buffalo discussed “significant ice buildup” on the wings and windshield before the crash.

• Flight officer in plane crash from Maple Valley, Wash.

  February 13, 2009 in Nation/World, Region The first officer on the Continental Connection flight that crashed near Buffalo, N.Y., had a passion for aviation and decided in her senior year in high school that she wanted …

• Crashed commuter plane was new, had good record

  February 13, 2009 in Nation/World The commuter plane that crashed into a home near Buffalo, N.Y., was new and had a clean safety record, officials said Friday, leaving investigators few immediate clues about why it …

• Crew describes river landing

  February 9, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 NEW YORK – The pilot who ditched his jetliner in the Hudson River and saved the lives of everyone on board said he had a “sickening” feeling when a flock …

• Sonar may have found plane’s missing engine

  January 21, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A5 NEW YORK – Authorities using sonar in the search for the missing engine from US Airways Flight 1549 detected something about the size of the massive aircraft part deep in …

• Jet’s engines lost power at same time

  January 19, 2009 in City on Page A3 NEW YORK – A jetliner that crash-landed in the Hudson River had lost power simultaneously in both engines after reaching an altitude of only 3,200 feet, the plane’s black box …

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