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No survivors aboard crashed Alaska excursion plane carrying nine


    (Reuters) - All nine people aboard an excursion plane from a Holland America Line cruise ship that crashed on Thursday in Alaska died in the accident, the aircraft company said.

    Promech Air said in a statement that the eight passengers and pilot were killed when the plane went down during a tour of the Misty Fjords area near the town of Ketchikan on Thursday afternoon.

    (Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Michael Perry)