Sean O Keefe
Plan of Ted Steven crash also including former NASA head Sean O'Keefe
Former Alaska Republican Sen. Ted Stevens and ex-NASA Administrator Sean O Keefe were dead with seven others people in a small aircraft that crashed Monday night in Southwest Alaska.
National Guard of Alaska was doing recovery operations. Basic reports said five of the nine aboard had died. The identities of the dead and survivors have not been released yet.
The rugged wilds of Alaska can be a very dangerous place to fly over in small planes, which many do. Iconic social commentator and comedian Will Rogers died in a plane crash there in 1935, as did Louisiana Democrat Thomas Hale Boggs Sr., then the House Majority Leader.
The plane carrying Boggs, the father of longtime broadcast commentator Cokie Roberts, disappeared there in 1972 enroute from Anchorage to Juneau to a campaign fundraiser and was never found.
Boggs was declared legally dead in 1973, along with a fellow passenger Rep. Nick Begich. If that last name sounds familiar, it should. That deceased congressman was the father of Mark Begich, a Democratic former Anchorage mayor who now holds Stevens' Senate seat.
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