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Former Republican U.S. Senator Ted Stevens (pictured) and Sean O'Keefe, a former NASA Administrator, are among the missing following a plane crash in Alaska last night. Details are sketchy, but reports say five of the nine passengers perished.

The fatal crash Thursday of a Continental Airlines (CAL) flight in Buffalo ended one of the more remarkable streaks in the history of modern aviation. According to Bloomberg News, the accident "ended a stretch of more than two years without a fatality aboard a U.S. airline flight, the first such...