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  1. The Bering Air Caravan plane was reported 'overdue' when it failed to arrive in Nome about 4pm local time.

     

    It was traveling from Unalakleet with nine passengers and one pilot on board.

     

    Crews are frantically working to establish the plane's last coordinates, but weather conditions in the area are so poor that it has limited the ability to launch an air search.

     

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    A flight with 10 people on board has vanished over Alaska, sparking a frantic search.

     

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  2. The Dominion Skytrader was a Canadian prototype STOL utility aircraft, originally designed by the Dominion Aircraft Corporation in Vancouver, British Columbia, but built in the United States in the early 1970s. Attempts to market the aircraft continued until the late 1980s, but proved fruitless.

     

    The Skytrader was a conventional high-wing, strut-braced monoplane with fixed tricycle undercarriage. The design was optimised for easy freight handling and featured a fuselage of rectangular cross-section with large loading doors to the side and a loading ramp at the rear. The aircraft's tail unit was angled upwards from the rear fuselage to facilitate loading operations beneath it, and the main undercarriage was fitted in sponsons on the fuselage sides so as not to intrude into the internal cargo volume. Passenger, freight, executive transport, and water-bomber versions were projected.

     

    As of 2007, the prototype lay derelict, with engines stripped, at Washington County Regional Airport, in Hagerstown, Maryland.

     

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  3. Further details on the Learjet 55 crash.

     

    The Federal Aviation Administration has confirmed that there were six people onboard the jet. In their initial statement, FAA had originally reported that there was only two people on board. 

     

    The jet was operated by Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, and according to a statement from them was transporting a young girl who had been receiving treatment. 

     

    Four crew members had been onboard the flight, alongside the young girl, who remains unknown, and her mother. They were travelling home to Tijuana, Mexico.

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  4. A second aircraft crash in America,

     

    A plane carrying two people has crashed in a residential area of Philadelphia, causing chaotic scenes on the ground.

     

    The plane, a Learjet 55, had been travelling to Springfield-Branson National Airport in Missouri after departing the Northeast Philadelphia Airport on Friday evening. 

     

    After less than a minute in the air, the jet was caught on doorbell footage hurtling to the ground before exploding in a large fireball. 

     

    Story with video here.

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  5. The Auster B.4 was an unusual British development of the Auster family of light aircraft in an attempt to create a light cargo aircraft.

     

    The conventional fuselage was considerably redesigned, turning it into a pod-and-boom configuration carrying the tail unit on a high boom. The rear of the fuselage pod was equipped with clamshell doors for easy loading and unloading, and a quadricycle undercarriage was fitted, retaining the mainwheels from earlier Auster designs, but adding a tailwheel to each side of the fuselage pod. The fuselage floor had fittings for seats, cargo tie-downs, or litters for the air ambulance role.

     

    The prototype was exhibited at the Farnborough Air Show in September 1953.

     

    Although evaluated by the British Army in military markings, neither civil nor military orders ensued, and no examples were constructed beyond the single prototype.

     

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  6. A grief-stricken widow who lost her husband on American Airlines Flight 5342 when it crashed in Washington DC has revealed they made a spontaneous decision on who would be on the flight. 

     

    Natalya Gudin and her husband Alexandr Kirsanov coached two young figure skaters but only one of them would accompany the pair to Kansas for the National Development Camp for figure skating.  

     

    Her husband was the one who ended up making the trip alongside the two kids, who all lost their lives in the midair collision. 

     

    Speaking with ABC News, Gudin said: 'I lost everything. I lost my husband. I lost my students. I lost my friends.'

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  7. The Freedom Aviation Phoenix was a single-engine four-seat American airplane that was sold as a homebuilt composite canard aircraft.

     

    The kit was produced at a facility on St. Lucie County International Airport at Ft. Pierce, Florida.

     

    The Phoenix airframe was formed of carbon-fiber composite materials on factory molds. The aircraft was assembled as a homebuilt, with a factory-sponsored builder-assist program available.

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    The aircraft has a swept, dihedral canard mounted ahead of the cabin, and a swept main lifting surface. Each wing has a fin (with full-length rudder) mounted about midway to the tip. In addition, the wingtips have swept winglets, which provide additional yaw stability while decreasing induced drag.

     

    The Phoenix is powered by a six-cylinder horizontally-opposed piston engine driving a pusher propeller. The tricycle landing gear is retractable.

     

    Only one aircraft was ever built, and the company has since gone out of business.

     

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