Six killed in Alaska plane crash
Published: 06 January, 2008, 22:22
Six people killed in a plane crash in Alaska were flying to Russia to celebrate Orthodox Christmas.
The group boarded the plane at Kodiak Island on Saturday for the short flight across the Bering Sea.
The plane crashed shortly after take off, forty metres from the runway.
Four people survived and are now recovering in hospital.
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