a small airplane sank yesterday in southeast alaska , killing five and injuring four . alaska head troopers spokeswoman abby peters said that among the missing is a nine - mile - teen woman . tongass community transportation director rich leipfert asked the ketchikan daily news that two of the dead were sent to hospitals . leipfert also reported that the plane , belonging to seawind aviation , drove into a spruce at traitors point , an area about 25 miles outside of ketchikan .
25 people dies in an airplane crash .