The Waiting: Survivors of the Ted Stevens plane crash

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The Waiting: Survivors of the Ted Stevens plane crash in Alaska wondered if help would reach them in time

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"The mountain snapped the five-foot aluminum strut like a hard-bent twig. The metal sliced through the plane's thin skin, shrieked into the cabin for a split second and mowed through everything in its way.

And then there was silence.

The complete and profound quiet of a spot on Earth never once touched by mankind and never likely to be touched again. Now a tiny red plane hung on the mountainside like a slapped mosquito, one wing askew, its engine buried in the mud.

The low-hanging scud that shrouds Alaska in summertime began to lay down its blanket. The rain that had for days made mud soup of the mountain slope turned its insistent sting against the plane's twisted hull."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/18/AR2010111805018.html?sid=ST2010112300141