In 1989 a KLM 747 survived a similar experience over Alaska.
After "eruptive activity" last year at the Cleveland volcano, University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist Steve McNutt noted that 90% of air freight from Asia to Europe and North America flies over Alaska airspace, and hundreds of flights fly through Anchorage's air space daily.
We also heard from City Councilman Andy DeValpine, talking about the 80 surveillance cameras that watch over Dillingham, Alaska.
Given the billions of dollars of federal money that Stevens has channeled into Alaska over the years, people here find it strange to think that he might have jeopardized his career over a house worth a few hundred thousand dollars.
The cloud had drifted in a northeasterly direction and occupied much of the airspace over the Gulf of Alaska.
Hence decades worth of hand-wringing over the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and the (current) closing of large areas of the North Slope to oil drilling.
In contrast, search traffic fluctuates least over the year in Alaska, the District of Columbia, Vermont, Hawaii, and Idaho.
And this whole sort of miasma has been kind of settling over the state of Alaska, and I think a lot of Republican voters have been looking for new faces.
And it might even involve a debate over drilling for oil in Alaska.
Delta, United, American, Southwest and Alaska were all over 7.5% of revenue passenger miles with awards. (A revenue passenger mile, or one passenger flying one mile, is the standard measure of traffic for airlines.) Alaska was best at a hefty 9% of revenue passenger miles on frequent-flier awards.
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Over the years similar measures in Alaska, California, Colorado, Nevada, and Oregon failed.
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The top four finishers in the last Iditarod , the renowned 1, 150-mile dog-sled race across Alaska, were all over 50 years old.
The federal agency noted that 81 culverts built in southern Alaska to improve salmon passage over the past decade survived last September's 100-year flood in the region, while roads with older, undersized culverts were washed out.
Don Mitchell is a writer, lawyer and Alaska historian who has known Stevens over the years.
The problem will usually be, of course, that Alaska will not have personal jurisdiction over the Creditor.
His firing is under investigation by the Alaska Legislature, but Palin's attorneys filed papers this week to request Alaska's Personnel Board take over the probe.
Security analysts expect Alaska Air to deliver 10% annualized earnings growth over the next three-to-five years.
Also last month, as part of the President's effort, the Department of the Interior held a lease sale that covered over 140, 000 acres in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.
Governor SARAH PALIN (Republican, Alaska): We just had a cabinet meeting over at the House, so of course she has to come plopping down the stairs carrying the baby to show everybody (unintelligible).
Another controversy over surveillance is brewing in the remote fishing town of Dillingham, Alaska, population 2400.
The Anchorage Daily News reported that one Alaska resident gunned down 60 wolves from his private plane over a three-year period.
When Hayward, a geologist, took over in 2007--after the Texas City refinery explosion and Alaska pipeline spill--he emphasized safety with a far greater sense of urgency.
Krupnik and Weyapuk (2010) report over 120 Inupiaq terms for sea ice and associated vocabulary from Wales, Alaska, including almost 75 terms for types of sea ice and ice conditions.
Since the nineteen-seventies, and the construction of the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline, major oil producers had enjoyed extraordinary influence over Alaskan lawmakers, and had pretty much dictated the terms on which they did business with the state.
In Congress, attention has now shifted to the House in the debate over whether to allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR, up in Alaska.
She also had a revelation while seated in front of one of the dioramas (my recollection is that it was the one of salmon-hunting Alaska brown bears standing seven feet tall): that the only reason we exercise dominion over the Earth, and creatures bigger and stronger than us, is because of our larger brains.
Palin currently has an approval rating of over 80 percent in her home state, in part due to her willingness to take on corruption in the Alaska GOP.
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Tony Knowles, Alaska's governor, is backing a bill that would give the state the same regulatory powers over cruise ships that it has over supposedly dirtier industries such as oil.
The Kensington mine in Alaska also saw production growth as gold output rose to 24, 391 ounces, a 13% increase over the second quarter.
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Over the decades, this has created a whole network of former Stevens staffers who are now movers and shakers in Alaska, as well as in Washington, D.
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