Killed in the Aug. 9th crash of a DeHavilland DHC-3 Otter were Former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, 86, the plane’s pilot Terry Smith, 62, of Eagle River, Bill Phillips, Sr., Dana Tindall, 48 of Anchorage and her daughter, Corey Tindall, 16.

The four survivors are William Phillips, Jr., 13, former NASA administrator Sean O’Keefe, 54, his son Kevin O’Keefe, and Jim Morhard of Alexandria, Va.

Ted Stevens

Ted Stevens served in the China-Burma-India theater with the Fourteenth Air Force Transport Section, which supported the “Flying Tigers”, from 1944 to 1946. He and other pilots in the transport section flew C-46 and C-47 transport planes, often without escort, mostly in support of Chinese units fighting the Japanese. Stevens received the Distinguished Flying Cross for flying behind enemy lines, the Air Medal, and the Yuan Hai Medal awarded by the Chinese Nationalist government. He was discharged from the Army Air Forces in March 1946.

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Ted Stevens was the longest-serving Republican senator in history, was part of the Interior Department under Eisenhower and oversaw the Senate commerce committee which oversaw the Internet during it’s most formative period. Stevens served the State and nation in some capacity sine 1953 when he was appointed a US Attorney for Alaska by Ike. Stevens served as the Assistant Republican Leader (Whip) from 1977 to 1985. In 1994, after the Republicans took control of the Senate, Stevens was appointed Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee. Stevens chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee from 1997 to 2005, He chaired the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, the Senate Ethics Committee, the Arms Control Observer Group, and the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress.

Terry Smith, the pilot of the Otter had over 29,000 hours of flight time. he was a former Alaska Airlines chief pilot and he was air-transport rated. He was the father-in-law of Maj. Aaron Malone, an Alaska National Air Guardsman who was killed in a C-17 crash two weeks before while practicing for the Elemdorf Joint Army/Airforce air show. Terry was a member of The Alaska Airmen’s Association and  cooperated with U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and the Russian State Civil Aviation Authority to arrange the inaugural flight test of a VFR route between Nome and Provideniya. As a longtime pilot for Alaska Airlines the company chose him to fly the historic “Friendship Flight” across the Bering Sea from Nome to Russia. This test flight is to demonstrate use of the route, test systems of the two countries, the internal systems as well as the international procedures, and produce guidelines based on the experience.

“The highlight of the trip would be Terry Smith’s smooth landing of the large amphibian on the gravel runway at Basin Creek, commented aviation insurance underwriter and private pilot Douglas L. Bosworth of Seattle.”

Dana Tindall

Dana Tindall was a senior vice president, legal, regulatory and govermental affairs for GCI since mid-1993 and was previously GCI’s vice president of regulatory affairs.Tindall was responsible for the development and implementation of the company’s regulatory, legal and and governmental strategies and positions. She had been with GCI for over 24 years. Tindall served as an adjunct professor of regulatory economics at Alaska Pacific University. She was a past board member of both the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation and the Alaska Council on Economic Education. Tindall received her bachelor’s degree in economics and masters degree in public policy from the University of Michigan.

Corey Tindall

Her Daughter Corey Tindall, 16 was a South Anchorage High School student and was active in the Debate Team, attending the Alaska State Tournament.

William Phillips Sr. played football at Evansville from 1972-76 and was the Father of Indiana freshman tight end Paul Phillips. His Son William Jr. was injured in the crash. Bill served as Ted Stevens’ Chief of Staff.

The former Alaska Senator served for decades during some of the most turbulent periods in Alaska’s history. Often toward the end of his life he was at the center of the turbulence. My heart goes out to those that loved him and to those that felt that he was persecuted by the media and political activists. I was one of those that worked hard to try and bring him down during his life, I will not be releasing any adverse articles about Ted Stevens or his family members for the next 30 days on Area907.com, Citizens For Ethical Government or any of the other media outlets under my control.

Theodore Fulton “Ted” Stevens (November 18, 1923 – August 9, 2010) was a United States Senator from Alaska, serving from December 24, 1968, until January 3, 2009. Stevens was President pro tempore in the 108th and 109th Congresses from January 3, 2003, to January 3, 2007. Stevens is the longest-serving Republican senator in history (Strom Thurmond served in the Senate longer, but was a Democrat until 1964) and seventh longest-serving senator in history. Stevens was Alaska’s senior senator all but 10 days of his tenure. When Stevens was replaced as President pro tem by Robert Byrd, he assumed Byrd’s previous honorary role of “president pro tempore emeritus”. He was only the third senator to hold the title of president pro tempore emeritus, having been preceded in this position by Byrd and Strom Thurmond.

Stevens served for six decades in the American public sector, beginning with his service in World War II. In the 1950s, he held senior positions in the Eisenhower Interior Department. He played key roles in legislation that shaped Alaska’s economic and social development, including the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act, the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, and the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. He is also known for his sponsorship of the Amateur Sports Act of 1978, which resulted in the establishment of the United States Olympic Committee.