Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator in US history, got killed in a small plane crash Monday while he was on a fishing trip in a rural part of the state.
According to the comments distributed among the press personals by the officials, the 86-year-old Republican Ted Stevens, who spent four decades in American Senate from Alaska before losing the re-election in year 2008, was among those five unlucky people, who got killed in a plane crash on Monday 9th August, 2010 in a rustic part of Alaska.
Lawmakers of Alaska paid tribute to Ted Stevens by saying “Ted Stevens leaves a legacy that included helping achieve Alaska’s statehood and fighting for the interests of his adopted home state”.
Ted Stevens, along with eight other people, was en-route to a fishing camp on 9th August, 2010 when the plane, which was owned by General Communication Incorporation, crashed near Dillingham, Alaska.
National Transportation Safety Board’s chairman, named Deborah Hersman, said “the flight left from a lodge owned by GCI on Monday and met the accident killing at least five”. The cause of crash hasn’t been disclosed by the officials so far.
According to Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu – a Democrat, Ted Stevens always said ‘To hell with politics. Always do what is best for Alaska’. She further added “He never apologized for fighting for his state, and Alaska is better for it today”.
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin called Ted Stevens “a warrior, unbeaten hero and a true champion of Alaska”.
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