Investigators hunt for clues into deadly Alaska plane wreck

The Manila Times

Investigators hunt for clues into deadly Alaska plane wreck  A crew of nine investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board arrived in Anchorage, Alaska, on Saturday, February 8, to find out why a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan crashed over the Bering Sea, killing all 10 on board.  NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said the Cessna carrying nine passengers and one pilot was lost from radar contact about 3:30 p.m. local time on Thursday, February 6, over the Bering Sea as it headed from Unalakleet, Alaska, to an airfield in Nome, about 100 miles (161 km) south of the Arctic Circle.  The incident comes at a time of heightened scrutiny of air safety in the United States. NTSB investigators are probing two deadly crashes in recent days: the midair collision of a passenger jet and US Army Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people, and a medical jet crash in Philadelphia that killed seven.   ABC AFFILIATE KYUR / REUTERS VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe  Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net    Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital  Sign up to our newsletters: https://tmt.ph/newsletters   Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #themanilatimes #worldnews #alaska #planes

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00:00Now, recovery efforts are still underway with a priority being victim recovery.

00:07Then we will recover the wreckage.

00:10We do have a short window where we have weather, bad weather coming in, some snow.

00:17And please understand that some difficult conditions because this is on an ice flow,

00:23which is moving about five miles a day.

00:26I want to take a moment and extend our deepest condolences to those who lost loved ones to this terrible tragedy.

00:36I also want to extend our deepest sympathies to Alaskans as a whole.

00:42The NTSB knows that villages like Nome and Alaska Aviation are tight-knit communities,

00:50so this tragedy affects so many.

00:54Please know that we'll work diligently to determine how this happened

01:00with the ultimate goal of improving safety here in Alaska and across the United States.

01:07What I'll say is each accident that occurs is separate.

01:14There are different conditions that led to that tragedy, so we can't compare one to another.

01:20And we're just at the beginning of stages of this one.

01:24Aviation is incredibly safe.

01:27We have the safest aviation system in the world, so I know it is difficult to see

01:34and I know it is on everyone's mind, but it is incredibly safe to travel by air.

01:40Right now we're in the recovery phase.

01:42Our focus is on victim recovery first and foremost. That's the priority.

01:46Then we're going to work on wreckage recovery.

01:49From that wreckage and from information that we're able to glean

01:53throughout our investigative process, that will help determine what sorts of recommendations we issue.

02:00Of course, we have past recommendations that we'll always look at that will help inform us,

02:04but these could be new recommendations.

02:06So too early, but still to come.

02:20NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

02:24California Institute of Technology

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