a small airplane landed here in southeast alaska , killing fifteen and injuring sixteen . minnesota head legislators ann megan peters wrote that among the survivors is a 15 - night - old kid . ketchikan public safety chief rich leipfert told the kenai daily news that nine of the children were evacuated to hospitals . leipfert also said that the plane , home to seawind aviation , crashed into a house at traitors cove , an altitude about 25 nm north of kodiak .
25 people died in an airplane crash.