Alaska Aviation Digest, 6 Sept. 2011

Aviation Is a Risky Business Dept.: On one side of the Kuskokwim River, pilot James "Ken" Richardson, 66, hung upside down in the cockpit of his Super Cub, his neck broken. On the other side sat the small town of McGrath.

... Word quickly spread of the airplane crash. Richardson had lost power about a mile west of town and tried to land on the tundra, troopers said. His neighbors raced to fill their boats with gas -- fuel is more than $7 a gallon and boaters don't tempt thieves by leaving a full tank on board, one rescuer said -- and then scrambled on foot through wet black spruce, bogs and rolling hills to the crash site.

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Risky Business Part 2: The deadly crash Friday between two planes headed to Bethel from western Alaska villages was Alaska's third midair crash in less than two months but was remarkably different from the others. In the earlier two collisions, the pilots didn't see one another until it was too late, federal investigators have said. In Friday's crash, the two pilots were traveling together in separate small, commercial planes to the hub community, a federal investigator said Sunday.

Risky Business Part 3: The Associated Press reports "A 39-year-old man is in custody after he tried to rush the exit door of an Alaska Airlines jet as it was taxiing to a gate at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport." 

This guy then proceeded to bite a crew member as passengers & crew tried to subdue him. The story clearly doesn't tell the whole story - it says he was in a hurry to leave, but doesn't say why. It also doesn't tell whether the crew ordered him to go back to his seat before other passengers got involved, but it would seem logical to make such an assumption.

Remember when the rules of reporting involved "Who, What, Where, When, and Why"?  This story tells Who, When, Where, and part of What. I guess that's supposed to be good enough, these days.