setting off search and rescue efforts around Tustumena Lake and the Kenai Mountains, some 80 to 100 miles south of Anchorage, the Alaska State Troopers said on their website. The authorities ...

A pilot and two girls survived on the wing of a plane for about 12 hours after it crashed and was partially submerged in an icy Alaska lake, then were rescued after being spotted by a good Samaritan.