25 August 2010

In OTHER News...

... the search for the missing plane in southwestern Alaska has been expanded.

Eight aircraft expanded their search Tuesday for a floatplane carrying four people that has been missing in the Katmai National Park area since Saturday ...

The National Park Service said that searchers again were unable to locate the plane despite good weather with clear skies and excellent visibility.

There has been no sign of the plane since it was reported missing Saturday afternoon in the 4 million-acre park in Southwest Alaska.


... yet another small plane has gone down, not that far from Anchorage.

The pilot and passenger of a small plane died in a near-vertical crash discovered Tuesday night along the Susitna River in the area of Mount Susitna, safety investigators say.

The plane, a two-seater Piper PA-11, was headed from Lake Hood to Rainy Pass Lodge, said Jim La Belle, regional director for the National Transportation Safety Board.

"They were scanning for moose on a moose hunting expedition, or preliminary to a moose hunting trip," La Belle said.

An NTSB investigator spent more than two hours at the crash site today. There are no initial signs of a mechanical failure, La Belle said.

The crash was followed by an intense fire.

... most of the news stories to which our local paper's website provides links are about Joe Miller's narrow edge* over incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Since most of the "professional" writers wrongly predicted that Miller would be "trounced" (thank you for that, Hot Air), most of us aren't bothering to read their endless gyrations about what went wrong/how she might have lost/what role Sarah Palin played in it/et cetera ad nauseum.


... we're enjoying our seventh consecutive day of sunshine. It's about freakin' time.


* Less than 2,000 votes. Sen. Lisa proclaims certainty that the absentee ballots, once tallied by Sept. 8, might put her over the top, but she'd have to get 5,600 votes out of the 7,800 absentee ballots to win - and that's not so certain, at all.

2 comments:

DR said...

Boy did the talking heads get this one wrong. Thirty two points behind? I wonder how many people didn't vote or switched their vote based on the constant negative polls and stories. I have always believed that polls tend to be self fulfilling because people like to back a winner.

Hopefully voters will think twice before believing a poll. I believe Miller will wrap this up when the absentees are counted, which will be a good thing for all of us.

joated said...

Man alive! It may have stopped raining rain up there, but it's certainly raining airplanes!

As for the primary...here's hoping that Miller stays in the lead and that there's a careful eye on the handling of those absentee ballots. Not all the dirty stuff gets done by the Dems...there are some Republicans (like Murkowski) who see their seats as hereditary fiefdoms and will do everything they can to retain control.