Officials are continuing to investigate what went wrong with the Bering Air flight last week Joel Natwick, a longtime pilot in the state, thinks ice could be to blame for the crashing of Bering Air Flight 445 "I think he had his hands full with a heavy airplane and severe icing conditions,

Authorities are working to recover the wreckage of a plane crash in western Alaska that killed 10 people while investigators are trying to determine what caused the small commuter aircraft to go down in the icy Bering Sea.

The commuter flight that crashed on Alaska sea ice last week was part of the workhorse network of short-hop flights that people in the vast state rely on for routine.