Limited information on events of crash has NTSB stumped
(AP) - No definitive cause can be determined for the plane crash that killed former US Sen. Ted Stevens and four others last summer in Alaska, the National Transportation Safety Board said today. The board agreed at a hearing in Washington that "temporary unresponsiveness" of the pilot could be to blame, but the reasons can't be determined. There was no flight data or cockpit voice recorders on board—on a plane officials described as otherwise outfitted with state-of-the-art equipment. The front-seat passenger, one of the teenage passengers who survived, was said to be asleep at the time of the crash. More»
