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Pilot in fatal Alaska crash was father-in-law of North Linn graduate killed in separate crash
There's a chilling twist in the Alaska plane crash that killed former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens.
Terry Smith died while piloting that plane, and CNN reports he was the father-in-law of Major Aaron Malone.
Malone, a graduate of North Linn High School in Coggon, died in a different Alaska plane crash outside of Anchorage two weeks ago. He was assigned to the Alaska Air National Guard's 249th Airlift Squadron.
Two members of an aviation family, dead in a matter of weeks.
The National Transportation and Safety Board says Smith did not make a distress call from the plane.
This image provided by the Alaska State Troopers shows the wreckage of the amphibious plane carrying former Sen. Ted Stevens which crashed into a remote mountainside during a fishing trip, killing the state's most beloved political figure and four others and stranding the survivors on a rocky, brush-covered slope overnight. (AP photo/Alaska State Troopers)
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