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5 dead, 1 missing after floatplane collision in Alaska

By Diana Stancy Correll
Published May 14, 2019 2:26am ET
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5 dead, 1 missing after floatplane collision in Alaska
Emergency response crews transport an injured passenger to an ambulance at the George Inlet Lodge docks, Monday, May 13, 2019, in Ketchikan, Alaska. | (Dustin Safranek/Ketchikan Daily News via AP)

Five people are dead and another is missing after two floatplanes carrying cruise passengers crashed into one another in southeast Alaska on Monday.

Princess Cruises said that all four passengers and a pilot in a de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver were killed after slamming into a larger de Havilland DHC-3 Otter Monday afternoon near Ketchikan, Alaska.

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