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SHOWING SUPPORT— Residents of Noatak join in a prayer circle as a Bering Air plane landed in Noatak. All around the Norton Sound, Bering Strait and Kotzebue regions, people came together to support Bering Air when it resumed operations on Saturday, after a fatal crash of a Bering Air plane on Thursday, Feb. 6 took the lives of nine passengers and the pilot
Ten people died in a plane crash on Thursday, February 6, when a Bering Air Cessna Caravan flying between Unalakleet and Nome went down about 34 miles southwest of Nome. There were no survivors. The...
PRESS CONFERENCE— U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, Senator Lisa Murkowski, Senator Dan Sullivan, Congressman Nick Begich and National Transportation Safety Board Jennifer Homendy held a press conference on Tuesday, Feb. 11, to give updates on the NTSB investigation and discussed aviation safety in Alaska.
An update of the investigation into the Bering Air flight 445 crash was provided during a press conference in Washington D.C. on Tuesday morning, which included Alaska’s congressional delegation...
SILENCE— During their February 10 regular meeting the Nome Common Council bowed their heads in a moment of silence for the lives lost in the Bering Air plane crash February 6.
The Port of Nome expansion project will go out for a new round of bids, albeit the bids will entail a modified design and splitting Phase One into an A and B part. The Phase One A bid is set to open...
The Alaska State Troopers released the names of the ten victims who were on the Bering Air flight from Unalakleet to Nome. The Alaska State Troopers, NTSB, and Alaska National Guard aircraft and...
Senior Aviation Accident Investigator Tim Sorensen and Chair of the National Transportation Security Board Jennifer Homendy during the February 8 press conference in Anchorage.
Chair of the National Transportation Security Board, or NTSB, Jennifer Homendy arrived in Alaska to investigate the fatal crash of the Bering Air flight 445, which went down 34 miles southeast of...
The City of Nome held a press conference after the wreckage of the Bering Air plane was located on the sea ice 34 miles southeast of Nome.
In a somber press conference held at Nome’s City Hall, Mayor John Handeland recapped the efforts in finding and now recovering the Bering Air Caravan with ten people aboard that went down yesterday,...
Alexandria Okpealuk is deep in prayer.
While the Coast Guard continued to search Norton Sound for the missing Bering Air plane, Nomeites gathered at Old St. Joe’s at 1 p.m. for an interfaith vigil organized by the City of Nome. The tone...
A Coast Guard helicopter returns to Nome around 1 pm on Friday afternoon.
UPDATE: NVFD Chief Jim West Jr said the Nome SAR is spooling up to three volunteers and tools to recover the bodies. A Black Hawk is going to fly them out to the wreckage which was reported by the...
A Coast Guard helicopter flies over Nome, on Friday, shortly after 1 p.m.
In a press briefing at noon put on by the Coast Guard, Assistant Chief of the Office of Incident Management Benjamin McIntyre-Coble said there has been an item of interest identified in the search...
A Bering Air plane flying a grid search this morning.
Around 10 a.m. Friday morning, Nome Volunteer Fire Department and Search and Rescue Chief Jim West Jr. gave a quick briefing to the Nugget: The SAR crew out of Nome made it to Topkok this morning,...

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