Stevens Dies in Plane Crash

EADS North America boss Sean O'Keefe was among eight or nine people on board a small plane that crashed in Alaska, the company said Tuesday, but it was unclear if he was among the five people officials report were killed.News reports have said that Alaska's former US senator Ted Stevens was also on the flight, which crashed Monday night near the town of Aleknagik, about 300 miles (480 kilometers) southwest of Anchorage.

Ted Stevens, the former US Senator, and Sean O’Keefe, the chief executive of EADS North America, are missing after their private aircraft crashed on Monday night near Dillingham Alaska.

A plane believed to be carrying eight passengers has crashed in Alaska, the US state's National Guard said early Tuesday.The Anchorage Daily News reported that Alaska's former US senator Ted Stevens was traveling by plane Monday in the vicinity of the crash, and that his wife was concerned that he was on board the doomed aircraft.The daily said Stevens, 86, was flying to the Agulowak Lodge, owned by the GCI company which also owns the single engine plane that crashed.

Legendary former US Senator Ted Stevens was killed when a small plane carrying nine people slammed into a remote Alaska mountainside leaving five passengers dead, officials said.Stevens, 86, the longest-serving Republican in Senate history before being voted out of office in 2008, was traveling on a flight which also included EADS North America chief Sean O'Keefe, the former boss of US space agency NASA.

NKorea sentences US man to 15 years; analyst calls him 'bait' for high-profile American visit SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A Korean American detained for six months in North Korea has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for "hostile acts" against the state, the North's media said Thursday — a move that could trigger a visit by a high-profile American if history is any guide.