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A pilot of an overloaded commuter plane appears to have been distracted by icy conditions and didn’t pay attention to his airspeed, leading to a crash that killed all 10 people onboard, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded Thursday. 6, 2025, a Textron Aviation Cessna 208B Caravan, operated as Bering Air flight 445, disappeared off the coast of western Alaska. The plane took off from the remote fishing village of Unalakleet, which is only accessible by air, for a roughly 150-mile flight to Nome. The aircraft’s wreckage was later found on a floating ice pack about 34 miles southeast of the city, according to the U.S. The crash came a week after a regional jet and a military helicopter collided in Washington, D.C., killing 67 people.
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About 40 minutes later, as the plane was starting to descend, it was hit by ice, and almost simultaneously, Nome’s runways closed for deicing that would last 10 to 15 minutes, the NTSB reported.
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