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that killed Stevens, 4 others  Patti Epler  The float plane
carrying former Sen. Ted Stevens and eight others apparently
crashed about 15 minutes after takeoff from a fishing lodge near
Dillingham as it was en route to a fish camp where the party
hoped to bag some silver salmon, witnesses told federal accident
investigators Tuesday.  But the plane wasn't discovered until
several hours later, when lodge operators called the fish camp
to see if the fishing party was going to be back for dinner.
The Monday night crash of a DeHavilland DHC-3 Otter owned by
Anchorage telecom company GCI claimed the lives of four
Alaskans, including the 86-year-old Stevens, pilot Theron
"Terry" Smith, 62, GCI executive Dana Tindall, 48, Tindall's
16-year-old daughter Corey, and Bill Phillips Sr., a lobbyist
former state Stevens chief of staff.  Also aboard the plane,
injured but alive:  -- Former NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe,
54.  -- Kevin O'Keefe, Sean O'Keefe's