Aviation

The pilot was the sole occupant of the aircraft, officials said.

The companies will make stops in Anchorage as they fly between Asia and North America.

Pilot Paul Spiro, 70, died when the Cessna 180 went down Oct. 3 in East Butterfly Lake.

Hannah Dollick, 28, had just refueled the Cessna 206 when it crashed after takeoff on the Porcupine River last month, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

Alaska State Troopers said the initial reports came from a passenger who swam to safety and said her husband was the pilot and she didn’t think he had survived.

A separate federal report released Thursday provides new information about a Kenai Peninsula crash in which two men died on a moose-spotting trip.

The “very calm” pilot landed the Beechcraft King Air on Tuesday at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, according to one of six passengers on the Dena’ina Air Taxi plane.

The Cessna 206 went down on the Porcupine River after taking off from a remote area northwest of Chalkyitsik, authorities say.

The airlines announced Wednesday that they have completed the sale just a day after the federal government removed the last major regulatory obstacle.

Alaska State Troopers identified the men who died in the Sunday night crash as residents of Chugiak and Sterling, as well as Ohio and South Carolina.

The pilot, an off-duty Yute employee, and passengers including another employee and a former employee, were going moose hunting, authorities said.

The plane, a type of experimental aircraft that resembled an extensively modified Piper PA-12, crashed shortly after takeoff Saturday morning, the NTSB’s Alaska chief said.

The pilot and sole passenger of the aircraft were found dead after it crashed near Tustumena Lake, Alaska State Troopers said.

The work stoppage shouldn’t affect flight availability if it doesn’t drag on for a long time, but could still bring significant losses for the company.

An Alaska Airlines spokesperson said the pilots recognized “a potential traffic conflict on the runway” and “immediately applied the brakes to prevent the incident from escalating.”

Another preliminary report issued Wednesday detailed more information about Saturday’s helicopter crash at the Naknek River near King Salmon.

The pilot of the Bell 206B helicopter, more commonly known as a Jet Ranger, was transporting four fishermen to a fishing site, according to the preliminary information from the National Transportation Safety Board.

The deadly crash was one of five in the area over the weekend. A crash north of Glennallen also seriously injured two people, officials said.

Transcripts show National Transportation Safety Board investigators homed in on specific times, and the specific workers involved, when work on the problem door plug occurred.

The incident Sunday involved one of four helicopters on a flightseeing trip originating from a lodge, according to a federal investigator.

The directive from the FAA, requiring new inspections after discovering a possible safety concern on Boeing planes, is the third such command Boeing has received in just two days.

The U.S. Department of Justice has chosen not to challenge the $1.9 billion deal.

The union plans to conduct a survey of Alaska Air flight attendants to determine key issues that still need to be addressed.