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Ted Stevens, the temperamental, powerful politician who helped secure statehood for Alaska and won billions of dollars in federal largesse for the region in 40 years as its U.S. senator, died in a small-plane crash in the rugged, fog-shrouded hills above Bristol Bay in Alaska, authorities said Tuesday.

Rescuers held back overnight by high winds and low clouds managed on Tuesday to reach a downed plane in southwest Alaska that had been carrying former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens and former NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe.

Two people aboard a twin-engine airplane were killed Saturday when it crashed into a house in western Pennsylvania, sending the homeowner fleeing with his dog, officials said.

A large cargo-type plane crashed in Alaska Sunday and burst into a deadly fireball that sparked a forest fire at Denali National Park, officials said.

The pilot of a Canadian fighter plane has made a miraculous escape from his jet, seconds before it smashed into the ground.

Authorities searching through the wreckage of a small plane that nosedived into an Arizona high school and exploded found four bodies Saturd ...

The pilot of a small aircraft was practicing landing when the plane crashed into an office building and burst into flames in Long Island, New York, Saturday afternoon, authorities said.

An Air India Express plane overshot a table-top runway in southern India and tumbled off a cliff into a heavily wooded hilly area, killing 158 people, officials said.

A homeless man caused about $12,000 in damage when he stole and crashed a single-engine airplane at a Maryland airport - but he'll pay just $40 in restitution....

Officials investigating the plane crash that killed Poland’s president and 95 others last month say passengers were in the cockpit before the crash.

An Afghan passenger plane carrying 44 people, including six foreigners, on a domestic flight crashed Monday near the Salang Pass ...